Word: myth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started inside the Communist Party. The sharpest critics are Communists or men closely associated with Communism. The process of evolution or revolution is occurring within the Communist movement because that is where the best minds of these countries have been assembled by force of circumstance." Concludes Salisbury: "The Communist myth in Eastern Europe, never strongly established, seems broken beyond repair. This becomes apparent when even the writers of Czechoslovakia, as calm and conventional as any of their countrymen, quietly explain why Poland and Hungary revolted. The startling fact, most encouraging to the West, is that when men in Eastern Europe...
...consultants, and for no end of other purposes. What are we in the graduate schools going to do about tightening up our programs and requirements for this critical degree, which now seems to offer nearly as many services as the A.B. itself? Current pressure forces us to examine our myth-enveloped Ph.D. with candor. What we see makes us look away with shock: for compare our Ph.D. programs with the professional programs in law, medicine, or business. We must ruefully conclude that the Ph.D. is tortuously slow and riddled with needless uncertainties; that it is frequently inefficient and traumatically disagreeable...
...inevitable, since Gen Ed A is the only required course at Harvard. Another reason for dissatisfaction is that the subjects assigned matter little to the students. Consequently, papers take progressively less and less of the student's time and attention. The twenty minute paper may indeed be a myth, but it is a myth with enough basis in fact to indicate the average student's inability to become at all enthused about his subject matter...
...Madness of Excess. Operating from the underlying premise that God does not exist, Camus argued in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) that the certainty of death made life itself a ridiculous charade, and therefore "absurd." He likened man's lot to the somber task of the Greek mythic hero Sisyphus, who was condemned by the gods to roll a huge boulder to the top of a hill, only to see it roll down again, to the end of time. But from this recognition Camus drew his own peculiar sustenance: "Crushing truths perish by being acknowledged," i.e., knowledge...
Speaking in the last of his three lectures, Aron also applied "continuity" to French economics, attempting to dispell the "myth of decaying French economy." He felt the lack of a fast-growing industrial life was due to a stagnating population, and the traditional French policy of protection of agricultural interests...