Word: illusionality
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The problem of reality vs. illusion, absolutism vs. relativism, the varying masks any person (the word "person" originally meant "mark") consciously or unconsciously presents to the rest of society--this is the theme that Pirandello turned to again and again and explored exhaustively from every conceivable point of view.
Robert E. MacNeal, president of Curtis (Saturday Evening Post, Holiday), brooded in silence for a few days, then issued a statement blasting the bonus gimmick as "a hurried move calculated to preserve the illusion of leadership." Said MacNeal: "We see no virtue in winning a race to the poorhouse.'...
No, nothing in Hemingway is real, or better, "realistic," neither landscape nor language nor the vision that lies beneath. But, in the best work, it is "true," true in the sense that it coheres in a vivid, living life of its own within the book, and true in serving as...
All week long, behind closed doors, the President was preparing to meet a crisis in Berlin. There were long, unscheduled talks with White House and State Department advisers. Hoping somehow to crack Khrushchev's illusion that the West would not stand firm, the President explained his position to junketeering...
Slogans & Doublethink. Spain's bloody ground became a moral gymnasium for all the liberals of the West; theirs is by now a depressing record of human illusion and disillusion. On the level of national policy, the story is equally dismal -the impotence of the League of Nations, the nonintervention...