Word: myth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human behavior. Just what form such an organization would take is not clear even to the professors, but in general it would be a periodic conference of the world's great minds, who through various means would dominate the thought of the layman and prick the bubbles of myth which keep dictators in power...
...piece of writing, The Moon's No Fool is a bold, imaginative flight, but one that seems headed in all directions at once. No reader can be sure his analysis of Mr. Matthews' meaning is the right one, that Mr. Matthews himself was always certain how his myth-sermon would...
...creative literature [TRANSITION] . . . wants to substitute for the short story and the novel such forms as the modern magic tale, the myth, the legend, the dream, the saga, the folktale...
...myth of Joe Louis' invincibility started a year ago when, a raw but talented young fisticuffer eight months out of the amateur class, he defeated a worn trial horse named Natie Brown. Prizefight reporters, hero worshippers by nature and naturally gullible, promptly hailed Louis, as they had hailed dozens of other promising fighters, as a coming champion. Louis failed to belie his billing as promptly as his predecessors. Matched with Primo Camera, tottering but still formidable, he won by a knockout in the sixth round...
...more perfectly he lived up to the weird picture of himself created by the Press, the more frantically the Press worked to improve the picture. By last autumn Louis was not merely the ablest fighter of his generation but the greatest of all time. His opponents, crediting the myth, approached the ring as though it were an abattoir. Chicago's pugilistic chopping block, King Levinsky, lasted 141 seconds. Tough old Paulino Uzcudun did better. No one had ever knocked out Paulino, in 36 years. Fisti-cuffer Louis did it in four rounds...