Word: illusioners
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The beauty of baseball is essentially an illusion. It demands a suspension of certain disbeliefs. The love of baseball depends quite crucially, for example, upon the illusion of loyalty: of fans to their team, of players to their team, of the team to its city. All nonsense, of course. Franchises...
The images in Bush's mind that have piled up in more than 200,000 miles of jetting are dominated by children. More than ever he believes that they are why he is in government and that they are at the heart of what this nation craves: sound individual...
Yet safety is an illusion, and so is paradise. Speaking before another Chautauqua audience this day, Dr. Christiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the first heart transplant, says that it is inhuman and arrogant for doctors to prolong life artificially if nothing but pain or coma lies ahead for the...
Though spoken by one of America's founding fathers, that approving view of the benefits of commerce among rival powers seems to have few adherents in official Washington these days. Hamilton's thesis is regarded by President Reagan as a dangerous illusion that should have been shattered by...
"I like music that's rhythmic and funky. Today that word's misused completely. Originally, funky meant 'stinky.' Like, 'Your mother is goin' to spank your funky butt if you don't clean up your act." Now funk means something that is sharp...