Word: illusionism
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Pravda said "It is an illusion to think that the change from one capitalist party to another will improve conditions."
Here, according to billboards, is "Conan Doyle's Immortal Story Masterfully Told." Here, "Masterfully," is Clive Brook at grips with modern gangsters, a Sherlock Holmes in love, a Sherlock Holmes who knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air...
"The final mood of a campaign is mostly illusion born of hope and fear," said Mr. Lippmann, as he went on to discuss the last days of the campaign and sum up some of his recent statements. "No public question is discussed on its merits. It is hardly possible to...
With a pace and continuity unusual even among the most capable casts, Fay Bainter, Edith Barrett, George Gaul, and George Baxter keep the audience in an almost constant state of sympathetic suspense throughout the whole play. The characters are four temperamental artists plus a philosophical and Machiavellian old butler. We...
Fascism denies . . . the equation that well-being equals happiness. [Such an equation] would convert men into animals thinking of only one thing-of being fed and fattened; reduced, therefore, to a pure and simple vegetable life." Democracy. "Democratic regimes can be defined as those in which, from time to time...