Word: delusionals
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To consider sport a metaphor for life is sad. To think of sport as life itself is tragic. None succumb to this delusion more readily than ghetto youth, for whom athletics is both a means of escape and an opportunity for approval. And none have described the process better than...
When Alceste confronts the thinnest skin in the world, the proud author of a new and awful sonnet-he eventually pronounces its creation a "hangable" offense-he does not seem unkind. Scolding Célimène incessantly about her other suitors, he conveys not only jealousy, but some idealistic...
Anne Montgomery also gives a fine performance as Hesione Hushabye, Shotover's deceitful and conniving daughter whose romantic delusion compels her to dress her suave husband, Hector, (Kevin Fitzpatrick) in an Arabian robe and to keep him around as a housepet. But Hector surprises the audience with his strength of...
The winner of the annual Harvard-Brown encounter receives the Stein Cup--a vessel some believe is a Wursthaus beer stein. That delusion comes from the Crimson's complete domination of the series. Harvard has taken all 14 Stein Cups.
It's difficult to reconcile the realistic and idealistic elements in McGuire's ideas. Harvard is grappling with the problems that reconciliation involves. But to think that the troubles will just go away is to live deluded, and McGuire was saying last night that we have to beware of the...