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To Clothe the Naked. In Luigi Pirandello's plays, the bait of appearance masks the hook of reality, but the mysterious fish of life is never caught. As Pirandello saw it, man is involved in the futile illusion and the obsessive quest of trying to catch and know his...
At the center of the cast is James Burden Day, a Roosevelt-hating conservative Senator from the Southwest and contender for the presidential nomination. The characters, moving woodenly through a familiar plot about political chicanery, include the usual domineering millionaire publisher, the conniving businessman who keeps Senators in his pocket...
End of Friendship. Even more frustrating is the common presidential illusion that a hand-picked appointee will vote the "right" way when he reaches the court. In 1902, the brand-new Justice Holmes crossed Teddy Roosevelt by voting against the Government in a trustbusting suit, prompting T. R. to snarl...
Peacemaking will unquestionably be difficult; it is the nature of our brand of liberalism that it does not invest in illusion. We are adequately aware that it takes two to negotiate. But this door has been opened--let us try it. And let us be glad, not sorry, that the...
Basis in Fact. The author's childhood years, with their moments of naked understanding and their eons of illusion, come across best. The character sketches are deft and pleasing. The narrator says about his mother: "While she was thinking she wept a little, just so the thinking shouldn'...