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Alas for the poor Senate anti-rackets committee when Teamster Vice President James Hoffa "swaggered into the McClellan hearing like a crowing cock into a coop of capons." The illusion is perfect, with the committee certainly discovering its impotence in the fray, but we'll bet our bottom forceps...
Gogol lived and worked in the illusion that he was defending his time, place and class, while actually he helped to destroy them. In a full dress study that will probably be the definitive work on Gogol in English, Russian-born Biographer David Magarshack (Chekhov,'TIME, Sept. 28, 1953...
The Last Illusion. Over Radio Free Berlin he explained: "I postponed this decision for years and years in the desperate hope that the surfeit of rudeness, stupidity, violence and injustice, the flooding lies and suppression of spiritual freedom were only convulsions of a transitional period." But "the Hungarian tragedy-so...
To heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has...
For if the U.S. is to continue to enjoy the blessings of an economy in which unemployment has all but lost its old meaning, the best definition of "more" might well be "enough," as long as inflation continues. A "more" born of inflation is an illusion and-for the moment...