Word: legend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Housing Ministry announced that an old Hertfordshire farmhouse, where legend has it that a doctor wrote a charming nursery rhyme about his daughter some 350 years ago, will be preserved as a national monument. The immortal moppet: Little Miss Muffet...
...believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate. "He was the keystone of my Arch," General Sherman mourned bitterly...
...arrival at Foothills, the Dalai Lama demolished this feeble Red legend. At the tea planters' town of Tezpur, he stated "categorically," in the third-person style expected of a god, that he left Lhasa and Tibet and came to India "of his own will and not under duress," and said that his "quite arduous" escape was only possible "due to the loyalty and affectionate support of his Tibetan people." In unemotional language (he was pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks...
...self. Most effective is right thought and right behavior. Sin does not offend any god, but only the man who commits it. This stern doctrine proved too barren for most men. Within 200 years, Buddha was transformed by followers from Master into Lord, and surrounded by all manner of legend, demonology and ceremonial...
Amirouche lived in the field with his guerrillas, seldom slept in one place for more than a few hours, eluded French patrols time and again with lightning mobility. As his legend grew, so did his delight in his own prowess. He affected strange headgear, often of black astrakhan, and gripped his men in a discipline of iron. Merciless with Moslems who wavered from the rebel cause, he operated a forest execution plant, where disloyal F.L.N. troops dug their own graves before their throats were slashed. Yet sometimes, with shrewd compassion, Amirouche released kidnaped French settlers after a lecture on nationalism...