Word: myth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somehow the tragic circumstances surrounding his death and the flood of sympathy which that released came to obscure what had actually happened. Achievements emasculated blunders. Washington became Camelot. Myth replaced reality. The nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...
...USDA) statistics in preparation for this defense of U.S. agriculture, "the productivity wonder of the world." Couched in Timese idiom, readers might almost be lulled into believing this bland prose. But beware -- it is really a simplistic, inaccurate polemic dressed up as objective journalism. It is Time at its myth-making best...
...Myth one: Big is better. In Time's view, efficiency and productivity are the highest economic values, and big farms are the best way to achieve them. There's just one catch--they're dead wrong...
...Myth two: Adam Smith was right. Time's archaic assertion that small farmers are to blame for their inability to accumulate profits is about as accurate as saying a high unemployment rate is the fault of lazy welfare cheats. The forces putting farmers under have virtually nothing to do with their own efficiency, and everything to do with barriers to competition that would make Adam Smith very unhappy. Not only do farmers have to overcome drought, locust plagues, hail storms, and an uncontrollable international food market, but the numerous, relatively unorganized and competitive farmers also have to buy from...
Goma, who was imprisoned for nine months in 1977 for his outspoken opposition to the Rumanian government, denounced "the myth that Rumania conducts an independent foreign policy. "Rumanian foreign policy is contined by a framework that is set down by the Soviet Union and is never exceeded," Goma said...