Word: myth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national influence to new highs from Rome to New Delhi to Paris. But equally as important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined no new world view of the U.S.; what they did was to dramatize the fact that the world likes an Americanism which day by day works for the quiet processes of emerging democracy and business opportunity (see BUSINESS), and stands...
...Myth & Vinegar. Dr. Jarvis prescribes vinegar (always the apple-cider variety) for all comers. The vinegar can be taken straight or diluted in water. But for maximum efficacy, he insists that it be mixed with honey-a sort of sweet-'n'-sour, yang-and-yin combination...
...changed. But at his middle-class Hampstead home in north London, he chose to consult not with trade-union leaders, with whom he feels uncomfortable, but with fellow Oxford intellectuals such as Economist Douglas Jay, who publicly urged that the party should drop its "class image" and "nationalization myth" and even consider changing its name...
...trumpeted that neighboring Syria is "inseparable from the Iraqi people." and that Jordan "is still tied to the chariot of imperialism and when she wishes to recover her freedom we will be ready to help her." Turning to Nasser, he poked at a tender spot: the Nasser-nurtured myth that Egyptians actually won a stunning victory in the Suez and Sinai fighting in 1956. He sneered at "the weak Egyptian army command" that could prevent "the Jews from capturing no fewer than 5,000 Egyptian prisoners, while the Egyptians were capturing only five Jews...
...Waves of Myth. As Hughes sees it. American diplomacy, especially under the late John Foster Dulles, failed in three major ways: 1) Pursuing desirable but impracticable aims. Example: advocating "liberation" of the Eastern Europe satellites. 2) Pursuing contradictory aims. Example: aiding rebel Indonesian army officers while maintaining ostensibly amicable relations with President Sukarno. 3) Equating mere proclamation with policy. Example: the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East, an attempt to scare off Soviet infiltration that, in Author Hughes's opinion, failed...