Word: delusionals
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Many critics talk about Fitzgerald's need to sprinkle glitter over experience, to paint life with a little gold brush. They accuse him of shallowness and superficiality, but his version of reality is so consistent and alluring that it seems more like a grand delusion.
Mr. Epps' passionate analysis is a welcome call to arms for those of us who wish to combat the hordes of summas and magnas who are trying to "squeeze the life out of us." I have one nagging question, however: why does he choose to canonize the C student? Surely...
War was the agony from which the United Nations was born. Chartered in 1945 to keep the peace, the U.N. has become to many a cruel delusion. This has rarely been more evident than it was last week as the U.N. debated the India-Pakistan war. While thousands were being...
The expectation that China will make a deal with America on Vietnam stands as a serious delusion. Whatever the Chinese expect to obtain from negotiations, they are not in the market for a detente at the expense of allies. Such Khruschevian politics have been repeatedly denounced well before the Cultural...
Sir: Did your writers read Beyond Freedom and Dignity? That we "cannot afford freedom and it must be replaced with control over man" is beside the point. The message is that there is no such thing as freedom, and what we cannot afford is the continued self-delusion that it...