Word: illusionality
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As Jeans grew older, he gradually became preoccupied with abstract philosophy. Sample problem: Is the material world an illusion, and thought the only reality? Such abstractions hold small interest for most of the modern public, and Jeans's last book, Physics and Philosophy, was little read.
Retorted Existentialist Karl Jaspers: "When acting, we have to be guided by a moral conviction and not by the illusion that we are on the inside of the secret of history."
Erich von Stroheim, once Hollywood's bullet-headed villain No. 1, was having great success in Paris, and not liking it at all. His ten-year-old La Grande Illusion, reissued, was the best-attended movie in town-and the most debated, because it showed Germans in a favorable...
* Partly a statistical illusion, because 1 ) the average age has increased, and diabetes is largely a disease of middle age; 2) deaths formerly attributed to heart disease, arteriosclerosis, etc. are now correctly diagnosed as caused primarily by diabetes. The U.S. diabetes death rate hit its peak in 1940, dropped off...
Not so, said the U.S. Weather Bureau, glancing up from its charts and instruments. A psychological illusion. In the eastern U.S., July and August had aver aged only about two degrees cooler than normal. West of the Mississippi, the sum mer was slightly warmer than usual.