Word: myth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saving the ace until the last, a charming India dancer named Lakshimi did an ably syncopated rendition of the myth of the creation of the world by Kali, the dread goddess who must create and destroy what she creates. Another effectively sinuous number of what was perhaps a spotty program was the story of Savitri, a charming legend of a faithful wife who cheats the Lord of Death of her husband in a neat pantomine...
Last year, with The Arabian Bird, Author FitzGibbon showed the critics that he could write a pretty good first novel. This time he has attempted the poet's task of turning history into myth, without the poet's vision. Though the result is bad myth, it is not a complete failure as a novel...
...play itself (which Eliot charted last year with complex blackboard diagrams at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study) marked his departure from Greek myth and medieval legend. Set in a modern London flat and a psychiatrist's Harley Street office, it contained social chitchat, a bawdy ballad and a couple of interlocking triangles. But, true to form, devout Anglo-Catholic Eliot had underlaid his comedy with sober Christian dialectic. First-nighters at the Edinburgh Festival could note that Eliot's psychiatrist and patients acted and talked more like a parson and his parishioners...
...opening of Death of a Salesman at the Phoenix,* which like most London theaters is not air-conditioned, gentlemen sweltered in their heavy dinner jackets, martyrs to the myth that London never really gets hot. In the House of Commons, the Serjeant at Arms permitted newsmen to remove their jackets (although honorable member's had to retain their coats and ties). To Playwright William Douglas Home Princess Margaret granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around...
...report, compiled over five years at a cost of ?200,000, contained some startling specific proposals which were probably less important than its broad analysis of population prospects. In its analysis, the report punches holes in two myths, one old, one new. The prewar myth was that Britain's birth rate would continue to decline, causing a drastic drop in Britain's population. The postwar myth was that Britain's tight balance of payments position required a drastic reduction of population by emigration ("With world supremacy gone, 40,000,000 people can't live on this...