Word: illusionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Our shelves hold many books now on the place of faith in science and psychiatry, and on the vicissitudes of man's efforts to love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The...
Is the stance of the U.S. in world affairs merely that of preserver of the status quo? Is U.S. foreign policy enmeshed in illusion, maladroit in method and impotent to achieve its stated ends?
Too often, as Hughes sees it, waves of popular illusion have swamped U.S. statecraft. For example, since war is linked with force. U.S. folklore arbitrarily divorces the reality of power from the politics of peace. Yet, Hughes argues: "Power plus principles equals policy." Other "myths" Author Hughes finds damaging: the...
Kriegsspiel, Anyone? Monotonous languor seems almost the key to an uncanny series of decisions and events that shackled German strength on Dday. Half a dozen or more top German officers besides Rommel were absent from their coastal commands. Some of these, ironically enough, were taking part in a Kriegsspiel, a...
To avoid the illusion that the economy is growing faster than it really is when prices are rising, the C.E.D. plotted the gross national product back to 1909 in terms of a "constant dollar" based on the value of the dollar in 1954, when it was considered comparatively stable. Only...