Word: illusioners
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GIVEN THE reality of God's non-existence," Jim Sloan was explaining, "there are basically three choices. One can become a cabbage, eschewing questions and remaining uninvolved in the search for answers. One can subscribe to an organized illusion, such as Marxism or Christianity. Most courageous, however, is to simply...
Suddenly the optimism and euphoria began to fade. VC sappers dynamited a culvert on Highway 13, five miles north of Lai Khe, shattering the comforting illusion that the road was safe. Two patrols of airborne troopers marching toward An Loc were badly mauled in ambushes. Then at 11 a.m. the...
It was like a Southeast Asian version of The Grand Illusion. The weird gallantry seemed even more bizarre after years during which both sides have sometimes collected the ears of the dead and otherwise mutilated corpses. Perhaps with the end in sight, there is some impulse to introduce a belated...
Interestingly enough, a musical sans clowns or waifs like Follies, which tries to treat mature women in a mature way, encounters substantial audience resistance. The show's actresses are seasoned by age, skill and valiance; Follies celebrates women who have learned to sift the grain of truth from the...
The studios provided us with a locus for dreams. Ultimately, though, when the real implications of that vision began to come home to us, the studios and their dream became superfluous. The movies did away with the illusion that life was somehow "real", solid, its events explainable, united by some...