Word: illusionality
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left," admitted 19th century English Clergyman Sydney Smith, "and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
For Medicine. An exemplary hospital-in-the-round is suburban Boston's Brookline Hospital, finished in 1959 for $1,600,000. Architect Joseph L. Eldredge thinks that it cost 7% less than a rectangular one of the same area, partly because there is less outside wall area and partly...
The President already possesses full power to order up to 1,000,000 Ready Reservists to duty by declaring a national emergency. His request for legislation thus was made for its psychological and political effect, creating an illusion of action to allay growing criticism of inaction in Cuba. The scare...
Spaghetti & Seminars. After work, the interns go on gobbling up political atmosphere in a college version of the Washington cocktail circuit. They turn quaint Georgetown houses into lively dormitories, spend their thin weekly Government salaries (about $50) feeding each other wine-and-spaghetti dinners, and vie to impress each other...
The man behind the bar (or, more realistically, the man who owns it) knows that there are only 25 or 26 one-ounce shots in a fifth of whisky, while a three-quarter ounce shot glass will dole out 31 drinks. A bar thus can make an extra $2 to...