Word: illusionality
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Like all Chinese "palaces," it was a maze of sprawling, verandahed, one-story buildings built around open courtyards and roofed with tile of imperial yellow. The entrance was two great sheets of plate glass blazing in red with the character "Sho" (Longevity). The floors were marble, the movable partitions elaborately...
Twenty-four hours after he had signed the political and commercial pacts with Austria and Hungary (see p. 14). Premier Benito Mussolini stepped forward on the stage of Rome's Opera House, gave the Fascist salute to an audience of 4,000 of Italy's head men and...
March writes simply, and extraordinarily well. His style is unornamented by any literary gingerbread, and he is able almost always to find the right words with which to clothe an idea: expressions neither clever pungent nor, neither clever nor erudite--but natural, and honest. His characters, too, give the illusion...
It has been generally agreed that Reichs-Chancellor Hitler's manipulation of foreign opinion has lacked something of subtlety and fact; but it was thought that in domestic matters at any rate, the man possessed a moderate amount of political common sense. And now even this last tender illusion seems...
REALITY AND ILLUSION, by Richard Rothschild. Harcourt, Brace. $3.50.