Word: illusionism
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Pulses began to race and breaths were caught as ex-Premier Raymond Poincare stood up and marched across the floor to the tribunal. It was the first time he had faced the Senate since his resignation nearly a year ago (TIME, June 9). He could not, he said, permit the...
Once I sat in the gallery while a great tragedy was being performed. A shabbily dressed man next to me was carried away with the play to such an extent that when the villian raised his dagger, he cried "Look out." That was the triumph of illusion--and the theatre...
Echinus told Sturly also of Love; but after Sturly had mated for several years, even that illusion was manifest. It was not communion with God, but merely Life's ruse for perpetuating the species. Sturly grew old.
One of the commonest educational platitudes is that college training "teaches a man to think." Possibly it does, but perhaps it rather relieves his mind of confusion and illusion, replacing these with fact and clarity, in proportion to his industry and mental alertness. This hypothesis would seem to be supported...
The Significance. The tree of life has roots as well as branches. Shelley shinnied to the topmost twig, swaying above sanity with piercing cries of joy. Savaron, cursing brilliantly, burrowed down through the loams of illusion to the last dark rootlet of which words can tell. Psychologically, the book is...