Word: myth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gagaku, a magnificent mixture of myth and musical drama fostered for more than 1,000 years at the Japanese imperial court and now seen for the first time in the U.S. See Music...
...After decades of Salazar, the Portuguese people are suffocating. The progress he proclaims is pure myth. After so many years I find that my home village still has no road and can be reached only by donkey. The young are still growing up untutored and illiterate. The regime has no popular support. It's like Batista's government in Cuba last New Year's Eve. It's perpetuated in power solely by force. Alas, it is difficult to create a guerrilla campaign like the Fidel Castro movement in Cuba because Portugal is too closely policed, populated...
...commuter myth is a tenuous one at best: students who represent a narrow economic, social, intellectual, and geographical section of the Harvard community are supposed to become members of a typical Harvard House--Dudley--while remaining part of the undergraduate community. The weaknesses of this ideal are needlessly strained, however, by the present eating arrangements for Freshman commuters...
...want you to know that James's hearing aid is a myth born of my imagination. He hears perfectly well but is too smart...
Without arguing that the myth Stone exploits is necessarily because it is so hackneyed and largely untrue, I am more than satiated with the South-is-so-sick theme. Especially from a new writer, it is disappointing that the old cliches are hauled out once more. No Place To Run is supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist...