Word: illusionality
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It took bravery and initiative for Dorothy McGuire and Robert Young to submit to the disfigurement enforced by the adapted Pinero plot. "Enchanted Cottage" is the story of a burst balloon: a manned veteran is thrown into a magic setting with an ugly girl, and in each other they gradually...
The Nazis were not fooled. They gradually took over the paper, allowed it an illusion of independence, and traded on its former prestige to argue the German case abroad. Finally, in 1943, the Nazis gave up pretending and killed the 86-year-old Zeitung outright.
"All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind...
Valentim Bougas of Brazil, President-Dictator Getulio Vargas' discreet financial negotiator, was active behind the scenes. Genial, foxy Sefior Bougas, a veteran of many conferences, tagged this one like the rest: "First comes the illusion, then disillusion, finally reality."
When he came upon the Great Falls of the Missouri River in 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis found himself in the heart of the northwestern wilderness. On an island below the Falls, on a high cottonwood tree, he saw a lone eagle's nest. Lewis went on alone, toward the...