Word: unreality
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...Unreal World. One of the things that impressed the doctor-authors in their wartime study of thousands of deaf G.I.s was that the hazards of deafness are largely mental. Their book vividly pictures how it feels to be deaf...
...first big success-and his last haircut-came in 1925 when he danced a dramatic part in the ballet Don Morte, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Says Kreutzberg: "I wanted to look very dreary. I tried a mask, then a cap, but that made me look unreal. It was summertime, so I shaved my head. The ballet girls said my make-up looked wonderful, then touched my head and shrieked." His next role was that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears masks or wigs...
...comparison between the bad rich and the good poor is far too familiar and too pat. The characters she means to portray sympathetically emerge as sentimentally unreal. But her nightclubbing set is alive with sharp-nailed women and men whose roving eyes seek trouble and ensue...
...Psychosomatic medicine superficially resembles, but is not to be confused with, Christian Science's mental healing. Christian Science's Founder Mary Baker Eddy, unlike the psychosomatists, held that illness is unreal, and disappears when the mind, stripped of error and evil, discovers God's reality...
Banked with mock turtles, dodoes, lories, red and white queens, mad hatters, March hares and hookah-smoking caterpillars, she manages to make them as real as she is by making herself as unreal as they are. This is the art of fantasy...