Word: myth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frost was, at last, going back in time to the richly and fearfully storied past; he had taken the way that only the greatest modern men of letters-Joyce, Mann,, Eliot-have been able to take without being engulfed, into the mystery of the long ago that becomes myth. Though he took his humor and toughness with him, his Grail-poem, "Directive" (1947), has a sorrowful magic like nothing he had written before. If this was the old man's intolerable touch of poetry, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947) carried on his vein...
Well you can't fool the CRIMSON either. We are going to dispel a myth which is more president than the myth of Santa Claus, a myth perhaps nourished and protected by some misguided CRIMSON editors of some dismal yesteryear. But as we said you can't fool us, there is no such thing as "the Radcliffe Girl...
Once this myth has been dispensed with it becomes apparent that Radcliffe College is due for a pat on the back in addition to birthday fecilitations on its 70th anniversary. It graduate adults and not products or types. It attempts to educate not to manufacture...
Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako, earnestly cooperating in debunking the Shinto myth, presented convincing proof of their democratic leanings. At a palace celebration of the second anniversary of Japan's democratic constitution, they led the assembled 30,000 in three rousing banzais...
...alert editors of Moscow's Pravda, however, were not to be taken in by any such fairy tale. Historical materialism does not recognize Genesis; no less an authority than the Big Soviet Encyclopedia calls the story of the flood a "myth" which "up until .the 19th Century had done great harm to the sciences." Snorted Pravda last week: "It is quite enough to look at a map to understand the real meaning of the biblical amusements of these Anglo-American imperialists. The true purposes of such an expedition are as far from archeology as Sykes is from great-grandfather...