Word: illusionality
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The New Statesman for December 8 carries an article by Gerard Piel, publisher of the Scientific American, called "The Illusion of Civil Defence," which promises to have a great vogue among those in power and those who think they ought to be. It is well worth reading as an excellent...
Piel is not only interested in summarizing, however; he also attempts completely to substantiate his title, and here his performance is not as impressive. Piel argues that civil defence is an illusion, because it is impossible to devise a program--of which shelters would be only a part--which could...
This contest is one of the really big games down at "the Trade School" and the fact that Wesleyan nudged them 64-56 a week ago shouldn't create a false illusion of Harvard superiority.
Both Genet and Ionesco are admittedly ill at case with the dramatic illusion. So it is more than coincidental that both explore the possibilities of the play within the play, and make stringent demands on their actors. In The Chairs, Stanley Jay and Mary Alice Bayth do a superb job...
This hardly means that Miller is merely a sensualist. The flesh is as great an illusion as any. Sought as an escape, it becomes as purposeless and mechanical as anything in modern civilization. Miller works through this point in the course of the book; underneath the chaos of episodes, his...