Word: myth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communist bloc makes a mockery of all past pledges against on-aggression. Not only must Russia be condemned, but the influence of its undergraduate allies be limited to the strength of their \numbers. The time when American Communists could cry for a "popular front" against Fascism is history. The myth is exploded...
...tone that he draws from every single player is the ultimate mystery and miracle that nobody can solve and nobody can duplicate." Lawrence Oilman: "In later years what we know to be the truth about him will not be believed. It will survive as a legend and a myth, a fable scarcely conceivable as fact. ... He ceases to be merely the devoted literalist, and becomes the inexplicable lifegiver, the master of a secret vision and an incommunicable speech, known only to himself and to his peers...
...mostly obscure. But what particularly distinguishes them is their style. Aimed at the common people, snooted by the super-pedants who monopolized Chinese "literature," frequently banned by imperial bureaucrats (who usually read them secretly), they were written in the vernacular. The least "literary" of great fiction, they mixed myth and legend with realistic anecdotes of love, family life, singsong girls, bandits, war lords, scholars, intrigue. This bootleg literature, called hsiaoshuo, or "a little talk," is still read by millions of Chinese. Three Kingdoms (San Kuo), written in the 13th Century, is still the great source book of guerrilla tactics...
...Radcliffe myth must be exploded" Miss Hariette Slote, Radcliffe '42 declared vehemently in explaining the "Gay Group," an undergraduate quartet devoted to changing Harvard boys' opinions of Radcliffe girls...
...Historian Pratt, in his most coaxing mood, adds 346 more pages to the ten thousand books on Napoleon. This one retells the Corsican's career from corporal to coup d'état. Since the story of Napoleon Bonaparte is to history what Ulysses and Faust are to myth, pettifogging historians have had hard work making it dull reading. Sometimes Author Pratt labors harder than he needs to keep it lively. But when he lets the legend tell itself, adding only his "worm's-eye view" (sidelights from old memoirs, letters, newssheets), he rivets readers' interest...