Word: illusionality
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Some English teachers labor under the illusion that college students speak English. Dr. Lalia Phipps Boone of the University of Florida knows better: she keeps her ears open outside the classroom. In American Speech she records the exotic gab used by her students when they stop talking for professorial consumption...
Invented. As the carnival death watch continues, townspeople chained in the Platonic cave of illusion begin "to break through to the heart of the dark mystery which was themselves." By the time Isaac has at last reported that Jasper is dead, a number of astonishing and preposterously pat character changes...
Modern-day featherbedding got its grip on industry as labor's answer to oldtime management abuses such as the speedup, spread far and wide during World War II's crash production and cost-plus contracts. It is by no means an American phenomenon; featherbedding pervades many segments of...
As Dr. Balint explains in Thrills and Regressions, published by London's Hogarth Press, his Greek polysyllables were devised after he had found, an earthy test for personality typing-how an individual reacts at an amusement park, or "fun-fair." The type that avoids the thrills of the roller...
Women often falsely imagine they are in love. The excitement of an intrigue, the emotions aroused by sex, the instinctive enjoyment of being wooed and the difficulties of saying no, all give them an illusion of passion where nothing exists beyond coquetry.