Word: illusionality
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"For what was the goal? When was it to be reached? And . . . what species of sub-man would have survived to enjoy them? That was how he had suddenly seen it. . .There was no goal because all was changed. . . The goal was an illusion. Therefore, it was necessary to fashion...
We see all around us . . .the' semantic confusion according to which Russia is a democracy of another kind. ... It is downright absurd to imagine that by surrendering political democracy one can get any other kind of democracy. And yet this was the illusion of many who thought of themselves...
Crisis at the Crillon. In Britain, the Thames was frozen over at Windsor, and primroses just budding in Wales withered in the frost. Alarming reports came from Kent, where snowed-in pubs were running out of beer. But the cold wave brought far more serious hardships and economic dangers to...
On the Student Council, where students still feel that undergraduate opinions, in spite of widespread unconcern are indispensable guides in administrative decisions of the University (and even there, apathy of others has deceptively bred an illusion of their own superior intelligence).
The great illusion about U.S. sport-that its heroes play the game for the fun of it-is still as lively as Santa Claus. Yet anyone who thumbed through the sport section of his local newspaper last week found, it full of stories of commercialism that belonged on the business...