Word: unreality
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Disneyland's search for validity may have led it beyond the normal distinctions of real and unreal by donating money and trustees several years ago to an institution devoted to exploring all the arts--California Institute of the Arts. C.I.A. reduces anyone's current conception of college arts programs to mere child's play. A prominent faculty is grafted onto the furthest reaches of California artistic explorations which are aimed at smashing the barrier between the artistic object, the artificer, and his lifestyle, C.I.A. is its own global village, teaching music from India, Africa and China along with conventional Western...
...television, the Lone Ranger is mocked, and even Tonto involved in general degradation. To Rabbit, "America is beyond power, it acts as in a dream as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom and wherever American is not, madness rules..." His belief is pure, and purely unreal; linked to a Calvinist temperament, it provokes violent reaction against newly critical opinion: Harry is irritated that people think this country "just grew here instead of people laying down their lives to build...
...even doubted his sanity: "After you've taken so much of that stuff, you just really don't know where you're at. You don't know if your reasoning is correct. It's hard to distinguish between real and unreal, and you're lost. I really don't know if I'm nuts or what...
...America to the state rooms of the White House. the confusion is over-whelming, despite the feverish order De Antonio imposes on his snark hunt. Boyish Richard Nixons jostle elbows with thuggish images of President Nixons. But nowhere is the mystery of the man penetrated. He remains a totally unreal figure, a substance as shadowy as his own infamous five o'clock stubble...
...American defeat (in the U.N. voting) is what we deserve after 20 years of unrealism." John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. "It is unreal after 20 years to assume that Nationalist China represents the mainland Chinese...