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¶ Texan Jack Burke Jr. had his own system for standing the gaff of five days of nerve-twanging match play in the Professional Golfers Association championship at Canton, Mass. He pretended that the standard 4½-in. cup was actually two inches larger. This happy delusion kept his chip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 6, 1956 | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

Like many of his other plays, this one is a comedy-fantasy with serious underpinning; it is a sort of religio-moral allegory in which people "practice charity the poetic way" by doing "welfare work for the soul" through illusion, collusion and delusion. The idea yields an intriguing story, but...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Jacaranda Tree | 7/12/1956 | See Source »

Patricia Hess, as Linda Loman, strives with the power of love to save her family. Miss Hess portrays both the depth and the ineffectuality of Linda's feeling with a sure and delicate touch, and the almost youthful integrity of her hope contrasts finely with the desperate delusion of Willy...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Death of a Salesman | 3/16/1956 | See Source »

Amid the yammerings of various Congressmen who pettishly feel that they should have been consulted in the making of Middle Eastern policy, the statement of Secretary Dulles at Friday's hearings strikes a note of comparative rationality. Although his views on Russia's sudden change of philosophy appear overly-optimistic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dulles--Word and Deed | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

Our model, under the delusion that he is a centaur, is planning to tour the Parthenon. The suitcase contains a pocket model of the edifice, but this is no substitute for Keats' "Ode to a Grecian Urn."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Oh What A Rogue Am I" | 5/6/1955 | See Source »

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