Word: myth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whispering very emotionally as he explained all this to his friend. Like a man who had found Truth, he was compelled to spread the word. And like a good evangelist he had skillfully woven myth and fact, vision and reality, into a web so entangled that you could never be really sure of anything...
...dusty reality of China remains today surprisingly different from the glowing myth so long propagated by Peking's ideologues. After touring the southern provinces, TIME Hong Kong Correspondent Richard Bernstein, who speaks Chinese, last week reported these impressions...
Wiesel's hottest outrage is reserved for the so-called scholarship of revisionists who call the Holocaust a myth, or in the words of Northwestern Professor Arthur Butz, "the hoax of the century." Replies Wiesel: "Where has a people disap peared? Where are they hiding?" In fury, he asks why academics have not boycot ted Butz and why students have not walked out on his classes...
...Jonestown story, like some Joseph Conrad drama of fanaticism and moral emptiness, has gone directly into popular myth. It will be remembered as an emblematic, identifying moment of the decade: a demented American psychopomp in a tropical cult house, doling out cyanide with Kool-Aid. Jonestown is the Altamont of the '70s cult movement. Just as Altamont began the destruction of the sweet, vacuous aspirations of Woodstock, Jonestown has decisively contaminated the various vagabond zealotries that have grown up, nourished and sometimes turned sinister...
...least a joke that nearly everyone has heard. Superman, along with Lois Lane, Cub Reporter Jimmy Olsen and Editor Perry White, comes close to being a mythological figure, not only in the U.S. but around the world. "You can't mess about with a myth," says Designer John Barry, who also did the sets for Star Wars and A Clockwork Orange. "Too many fans would be at your throat...