Word: delusionals
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Next week's agenda has been announced. The NATO conference will concern itself with Sputnik and missile secrets, with numbers of men and methods of military defense. There will be nothing said about France and Algeria, or Britain and Cyprus, or the U.S. and its China policy. There will be...
On one point the flesh sculptors were unanimous: what plastic surgery needs is a spongelike substance that will stay soft indefinitely. A majority held that the current concern over micromastia is really a mass micromania-a "culturally induced" delusion of smallness.
There are two ways to lie. One is the direct delusion, the telling of something other than the truth. The other is deception by silence, the telling of only part of the story. The communists used both means. They omitted everything that could possibly be omitted, when it did not...
Atmosphere of Delusion. In addition to this departmentalization "was a growing attitude of worship of the gadget." The new computing machines worked at such dazzling speeds that they tended to assume more importance than the ideas fed into them. As projects grew and machines multiplied, "the ideal of the great...
"In this atmosphere of delusion, there has been so much dead space and dead wood placed between those really capable of ideas that even they are forced to work less effectively than ever before. The scientist is valued in accordance with the amount of money that he spends, and his...