Word: illusionality
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Polls and primaries added to the illusion that Goldwater could not win the nomination. Barry did very badly in New Hampshire and Oregon, won unimpressive and largely uncontested victories in such states as Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska and Texas. But what was unappreciated was the fact that in state convention after...
The Three Sisters. If the Hemingway hero was the man to whom things happened, the Chekhov hero and heroine are people to whom nothing happens. His Sisters exist in a sad purgatory of might-have-beens and never-will-bes. Masha (Kim Stanley), married at 18 to a bureaucratic clod...
The Submen. In this willfully limited goal he is successful. The novel's desultory action occupies about two years, and reading about it provides the horrifying illusion of having spent that long with Farrell's submen. The reader's reaction is likely to be exasperation.
Planning Ahead. The strong measures have brought wounded howls from many Brazilians. But most businessmen are no longer in love with inflation and are ready to go along. "Inflation," says São Paulo Industrialist Paulo Quartim Barbosa, "is an illusion of grandeur and a guarantee of catastrophe." As for...
Similarly, United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, summoned home from a trip to Europe, warned the Security Council that the U.S. would remain in South Viet Nam as long as North Viet Nam, "with comradely assistance from the regime in Peking," continues to wage war there. "The U.S.," said Adlai, "cannot...