Word: illusionality
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The decade was scarcely a year old when the nightmares began. The demoniac leer of Charles Manson. Confessions without remorse. An aerospace unemployment line of 180,000 bodies. Flickering images of a bank burning. Such impulses, such possibilities, had always been there beneath the glitter, but once they surfaced, it...
Imagine trying to be a regional writer in Los Angeles, the world's most celebrated suburb of nowhere. Eve Babitz -Hollywood born and raised-tries and immediately runs into a problem. "In Los Angeles," she writes, "it's hard to tell if you're dealing with the...
To say that Kahn has hit a slump with his second book is hardly true. Instead, he is now dealing with anecdotal impressions of the new baseball reality, perhaps less warm but more real than his first book. This is difficult, because often in baseball the reality gets mixed up...
Professor Blum contended that as Wilson met the needs of his own personality, it led him to make statements rooted in illusion. Wilson, in the judgment of his chronicler, was at once the keeper of a rigid conscience and the creature of a political system that worked only when he...
Most Americans would call South Africa's treatment of blacks immoral, but we are in a poor position to preach on this: our own progress in race relations has been too slow and too uncertain. The message we should convey to South Africans is that, right or wrong, their...