Word: myth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fifteen or thirty minutes at each meal. But actually such a move would be no solution at all, for, although the Union theoretically closes upwards of half an hour before its sister dining halls at both lunch and dinner, the announced early closing hour seems to be but a myth, since the doors remain open long after the curfew...
...spite of its romantic name, the Atlantis did not search for relics of lost Atlantis, the fabled continent which the ancient Greeks believed sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean thousands of years ago. Most geologists do not take the Atlantis myth seriously...
Although, as Lincoln Scholar Benjamin P. Thomas wrote, "Lincoln was loved and hated, lauded and blamed, as few men have been before or since," the hero myth got off to a head start. It dominated Lincoln literature until the end of the 19th Century. Josiah Holland's Life, which appeared within a year of Lincoln's death plugged the theme that Lincoln was model youth and had made the grade through pure idealism. Its sale of more than 100,000 copies indicated to many royalty-conscious writer how the average reader liked his Lincoln served-only the palatable...
Communism, the 20th Century's great myth, has spawned a host of subsidiary myths. Conspicuous among them is the widely peddled notion that Russia's dictatorship of the proletariat has lifted proletarians to new heights of human dignity. The Russian line is: We have liquidated capitalism and thereby ended the exploitation of workers. The reality is that the Soviet economy rests squarely on a base of slave labor and that the Soviet Union is the greatest slave state in history...
...servitude of Greece. (Later, Gromyko?who has conscientiously learned to speak excellent English even though he persists in speaking Russian most of the time?poked a pencil at the translator and said that he had meant "enslavement" and not "servitude.") Intervention by Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania was a "myth. Intervention cannot be concealed in bushes." As usual, Gromyko dragged his listeners around the same point through interminable repetitions. His reasoning was pervaded by the sublimely simple conviction that the Communist dogma was The Truth and would prevail. He was surrounded by an intangible body of strangeness, as though...