Word: delusionals
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Each age fashions its text of Shakespeare in its own image. The sentimental, humanitarian men of the eighteenth century rewrote King Lear's agonizing, comfortless conclusion; the early Victorians cut out the bawdy and the morally subversive. The turn-of-the-century aesthetes were more sophisticated--they convinced themselves that...
Otten insisted that blanket rules tabooing injection of the first person in news analyses are too dogmatic. "The term 'perfect objectivity' is a snare and a delusion. Instead we must strive for fairness," he says.
My pride was hurt. I had wagered one semester of blue jeans against three years of unctiousness, and the unctiousness had lost. I had bet my boyfriend that I would get a good grade in Latin despite my militancy and now I would have to pay up. I had lost...
Behind Rockefeller's ignominious silence on Vietnam is a more consistently hawkish record than that of any other candidate, except perhaps Nixon. The Rockefeller Brothers report of 1958, in which Nelson played a major role, was an effort to pressure the Eisenhower administration into larger arms expenditures for Pax Americana...
That is just the kind of simpleminded, sentimental statement that acutely embarrasses Plarr. He despises sentimentality, machismo, everything he takes to be sugar-coated human delusion, and all protestations of love or emotion, which are curable, as he puts it, "by means as simple as an orgasm or an eclair...