Word: illusionality
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It is the Vedder tradition evidently, that both Fish and Hope Weston are trying, in their respective manners, to get away from. Just how much nearer this brings them to Jamshid and Kaiko-bad may be a question, but certainly color helps out the illusion, sometimes magically-even though Fish...
Fourteen fitful fragments of their decline and fall are whisked by in staccato succession. Fourteen is too many times to snap the thread of theatrical illusion. Rather a restless rise of suspense is the result; it sags and roust be picked up again with visible effort at the beginning of...
This year's settings will be essentially different in nature from those used last winter for Andreyev's "Life of Man". Last year the scenery was of the impressionistic school with no attempt at realistic illusion. Each of the five sets of the play was designed to express the mood...
Nevertheless the value of the book lies less in its faithful portrayal of daily existence in the South Seas than in its plain spoken and sincere account of the mental and psychic struggles of its author in these isles of illusion. It is not easy to define the intangible something...
The author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him. I should have a constant fear that he would ruin some pet illusion of...