Word: illusionality
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"Where the successful strategist should be cold and calculating, he is fiery and emotional; his great sense of history leads him to confuse precedents and principles, and his dramatic mind builds star-pointing Alhambras of illusion totally devoid of a foundation of fact.
Luminosity, precision, an illusion of floating through flawless air are effects she strives for and sometimes gets in the new medium. Her Naval Academy murals are excellent. A portrait of Mrs. Mullen's son on a tricycle, on view in the window of Chicago's Findlay Galleries, once...
As editor of a service publication [Navy News] I have to read hundreds of articles on the war every week. In my opinion, the article "Death of an American Illusion," [on the fall of Bataan] TIME, April 20, is the best article on the war to appear so far. I...
Last week an illusion died. It was the illusion that Britain and the U.S. could husband their might until 1943 or 1944, then win the war by retrieving what Germany and Japan had taken in the meantime. As Germany coiled for a spring offensive somewhere in Russia (see p. 24...
For 38 consecutive months Department of Commerce figures for retail sales have topped the year before, but the chart at right shows the worm in this shiny apple: January was the fourth consecutive month when the only reason dollar volume was up was that the public was paying more money...