Word: delusionment
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Many fewer banks are recruiting on campus this year than in years past, and many fewer Harvard seniors have secured job offers from their summer internships. But in one sense, it is not so much that we have fallen into crisis as much as we are witnessing the end of...
If you didn’t know, Costco stores sell toilet paper in packs of 36. In 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported that the average American uses 8.6 squares of toilet paper per bathroom visit, for a total of roughly 57 squares a day. Charmin Ultra has 264 squares...
Lenny considers himself less a thug than a commercial facilitator ("What d'you think we are? Gangsters?"), and Archie seconds that delusion. ("Keep your receipts," he tells one associate, "'cause this ain't the Mafia.") But the milieu is redolent of many a mob story, with the rocknrollas as goodfellas...
“My characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on...
Is this campaign less honest than those in the past? I don't know. I was working pretty hard in 2004. I think that twisting and distorting and sometimes even falsifying facts - even self-delusion - is just a standard part of the democratic process and probably has been since the...