Word: myth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, two days after the 20th anniversary of his great victory, Heihachiro Togo lay in his little Tokyo house, dying of cancer of the throat. For years Admiral Togo has been a living myth to the people of Japan, appearing publicly only once a year on the anniversary of the Battle of Tsushima Straits...
...natural narrative" of Jacob and his sons, Mann soon saw greater & greater depths in the story, an unsuspected universality in its theme. Readers will expect much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into a story of consummate artistry, but from time to time he deliberately breaks the thread, ties it into the deeper pattern of the tale's symbolic background. Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, Esau, Laban, Rachel, Leah take on vivid lifelikeness as characters in their own right...
...list of Jews serving in the Administration or acting as advisers to the President. By last week the undercurrent of talk about the "Jewish influence" in Washington had become such a steady buzz throughout the land that the same magazine was prompted to publish another article entitled "Exploding the Myth of a 'Jewish Hierarchy'." By calling the roll of Jews in the Administration, Arthur T. Weil aimed to prove their number is piteously small. The roll...
There is something pathetic in the insistence of the old guard in the sacredness of the Constitution, Like the Washington myth, it dies hard, and becomes an article of faith, not of reason. Seemingly no logic can reveal the Constitution for what is is: a document designed by the Fathers to furnish a working code of government, but which, being framed in an emergency one hundred and fifty years ago, as the Senator himself admits, is admittedly an imperfect instrument and subject, like all the works of man, to the wear and tear of circumstance. Although it may be true...
...because he knew that anything Al Smith said or wrote would be important news. For a year and a half, the most important news that Editor Smith made was criticism of the Roosevelt Administration. In the first issue of the New Outlook, he called the Forgotten Man a myth (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). In May last year he urged caution about inflation. In June, he could not understand how NRA would work. In September, he criticized Postmaster General Farley's distribution of patronage. In October, the New Outlook released his open letter to the New York State Chamber...