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Willy's pushing his sons to succeed and his unwillingness to accept their failures develop into delusion and insanity.
The cover editorial chastises Americans for remaining loyal to President Clinton, calling their fidelity "a mixture of opportunism and delusion."
But Keats describes the bees' labor as a gentle delusion ("they think warm days will never cease").
The diasporan ideal depends on the delusion that Americans can reverse the cross-contamination of our cultures, our bloodlines, and our psyches--that if we dream hard enough, we might return to a prelapsarian state of pure identity.
The cover editorial argues that the president's popular support should not prevent impeachment, because it is merely a "momentary delusion" achieved through "effective demagoguery."