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In some former years, a large part of the rising G.N.P. was an illusion caused by dollar inflation. Since the dollar is now stable, all of the G.N.P. increase means an actual rise in the output of goods and services. The cost-of-living index nudged up three-tenths of...
The smiling face of a curbside bankteller in front of the Cambridge Trust Company is but an illusion perpetrated with the aid of two mirrors, a seven foot tunnel, and a genial Mr. Gooding. The deception began in 1952 when the bank in stalled the drive-in teller as a...
"Through all the centuries," says Professor Sinnott, "one question more than any other has perplexed explorers of the realm of man-his strange double nature. The physical part of him, his body, is born, lives, grows and dies . . . But governing that body there seems to be an intangible something that...
After that, the magical illusion went out of the production. Thirteen girls-enchanted maidens all, wearing white calf-length dresses that looked like nightgowns-trotted on, stretched gracefully and all but went to sleep. The hunter made the acquaintance of the head sleepyhead (really a princess, danced by pretty Svetlana...
In Krull, Thomas Mann tried to avoid that tension by laughing-ironically, a little pedantically, but joyously, too-at human folly. For he really liked his confidence man; he saw in him the world's need for illusion, exemplified by a swindler's tricks as much as by...