Word: unreality
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...religion, its cathedral is Esalen. The nerve center of the counterculture, the cradle of Gestalt therapy, the inspiration for a thousand adult-education courses (with the emphasis often on adult), the Esalen Institute, perched on the windswept cliffs of Big Sur, Calif., along one of the loveliest stretches of unreal estate in the world, has long been the Platonic model of an Aquarian think tank. From Buenos Aires to Berlin, it has also become a symbol for the beauty, and something of the folly, of the peculiarly American belief that perfection is just a day away...
...there is something else that makes this campaign seem somewhat unreal, so eerily formless and wide open: for the first time in decades, there are few cutting issues or themes or ideologies for the candidates to ride in their quest to break out of the pack. No candidate has been able to tap a generational yearning for "new ideas," the way Gary Hart did four years ago. No candidate has been able to gain traction through such themes as radically reversing the role of Big Government, as Ronald Reagan did eight years ago, or appealing to anti-Washington populism...
...similar top-level meeting on Jan. 7, 1986, Shultz and Weinberger repeated their opposition to the arms sales. Shultz was still unaware that there had been any. "It almost seemed unreal," he recalled. "I couldn't believe that people would want to do this . . . I went away puzzled and distressed." While Shultz thought Reagan was leaning toward such sales, he again was not told that the President just a day earlier had signed a new finding authorizing future direct U.S. arms sales to Iran. Shultz would not learn of these sales until the story broke the following November...
...worst' "), and produces metaphors that obviously embarrass their creator: "He felt that he had unwittingly stuck his hand into the Great Wasps' Nest of Life. As an image it stank." But all along he displays one talent that never flags -- he is able to convince the reader that the unreal is actually occurring. Critic Jacques Barzun once analyzed the technique of the effective horror novelist: "Since terror descriptions must perpetually make the reader accept yet question the strange amid the familiar, the writer pursues the muse of ambiguity. He begins by establishing a solid outer shell of comfort -- the clergyman...
Leslie Stein, a high school junior in suburban Needham, received one of the faulty exams and was told by her proctor to leave. "I was shocked," Stein said. "I had been taking [SAT preparation] courses. I thought I was doing great. I was very confident it was just unreal...