Word: illusionality
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The survey, or vegetable soup course, is probably the greatest of these. Such courses as Government 1 are harmful to the student in three ways. They give him the blissful illusion, common among undergraduates at the University of Chicago, that he is acquiring the sum of all knowledge, when in...
This, on the word of knowing Nancy Randolph, society reporter of the proletarian New York News, was what cafe society thought about the Whitney crash last week. Cafeteria society was shocked, too, and downtown they were taking it harder than any other financial scandal of the century. True, Joseph Wright...
Listeners and critics have acclaimed Biggs's playing on the Bach organ as a revelation. Its pipes, unlike those of the modern organ, are all out in the open, visible to the audience. (Pipes in modern organs are, as a rule, enclosed behind shutters; those visible to the audience...
Foreign aggression and arrogance may make war inevitable, even for us. But if we are forced to make the decision between war and peace, let's guard against the illusion that it will be to the betterment of any individual person's, town's, or state's happiness. Let's...
Expanding Universe? The question of constants is closely bound up with the magnificent conception of the Expanding Universe. Half way out to the fringes of the visible universe, the nebulae or star-galaxies appear to be rushing away from Earth at speeds up to 25,000 miles per second. The...