Word: illusionality
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Freud, says Dr. Sachs, "saw everywhere around him the struggle of two opposing forces" (life instinct v. death instinct, subconscious drives v. repression). "He was not dazzled by the illusion of progress. . . . For this reason he was skeptical about the promises of communism. When a prominent Bolshevist told him that...
The honest poet has no choice, however, but to show the illusion-loving man-in-the-street that today the beauty he dreams of has become a Wellsian, moonlit scene of desolation-a "lava plateau . . . fissured with chasms" and dotted with extinct volcanoes. Instead of a credible faith, this frozen...
"Never again," says Schwarzschild, "must we succumb to the myth that power and armaments and compulsion are of themselves sinful. . . . All order, all civilization, all law and dignity, rest on the existence of weapons and power." The Illusion. Author Schwarzschild's No. 2 thesis is that Germans have more...
A jaunty, bow-tied, küss-die-hand Viennese who has charm off stage as well as on, and knows it, Karlweis was bred to old-world culture. His father, a friend of Johann Strauss's, was a well known playwright; his sister married the late great novelist...
Later his 19-year-old daughter sailed to Manila with her father, where a change of administration dropped him to the governorship of a small island, where he died. Josefina, then 20, took refuge with a Creole family in Manila. "There was one wholly exceptional young man in Manila, tall...