The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

After visiting Yenan he wrote that the CCP political system was best described as an "agrarian or peasant democracy or as a farm labor party. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. " Atkinson had covered the police beat for the Evening Transcript.

Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28 1894 – January 14 1984) was an American theatre critic. ". He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960.