Word: myth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the National Planning Association last week: "The belief that the future prosperity of the American economy depends on high tariffs is a myth...
Negroes are coming to realize that the Negro dilemma is not confined to the South, that the old Negro idea of Northern freedom is a "myth." Since Pearl Harbor they have watched Army and Navy segregation policies carry Jim Crowism into towns and villages in which it had never existed before. "Democracy to many," concludes Sterling A. Brown, "seems to be symbolized by this message ... on a bus in South Carolina: 'If the peoples of this country's races do not pull together, Victory is lost. ... Be patriotic. Avoid friction. White passengers will be seated from front...
...Scheinfeld spent five years studying and assembling what modern scientists have discovered about sex. Some of their findings upset established notions: e.g., that women are more likely to be hysterical than men; during the bombing of London there were 70% more shock cases among civilian men than women. Another myth: that primitive women bear children as easily as animals do; actually they take as long to recuperate as civilized mothers...
...oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...
...Scribe basement an Army mess has been set up, which keeps bodies and souls joined but leaves us completely unsatisfied. (The chef has managed to destroy the old myth that you can give a Frenchamn even Army rations and he will make something tasty out of them.) But the Café de la Paix is just around the corner and gets a good deal of our trade...