Word: myth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be $1.25 billion, and the company has become the first to master the mass production of a silicon memory chip small enough to pass through the eye of a needle yet able to store 64,000 bits of information. Bell & Howell's Frey maintains it is a myth that only small firms can be innovative, adding that only large corporations have the capital and the distribution network to take new products from lab to market...
John Paul II touched on the hope that keeps every American muddling through a life measured by matter, a life that weans itself on so much hypocrisy and disbelief, idealized by pure myth, a life that--more and more--becomes dehumanized and objectified and reduced to...a method...
...crisis also demonstrated the error of the myth that Nixon, aided by me, exercised an octopus-like grip over a Government that was kept in ignorance of our activities. The reality was the opposite of the folklore: not widening White House dominance but bitter departmental rearguard resistance; not clear-cut directives but elliptical maneuvers to keep open options; not the inability of the agencies to present their
...pity: this is an admirable show, finely curated with an exemplary catalogue by Art Historian Charles Stuckey and his assistant Naomi Maurer. It puts one's attention where it should go-to the work, not the myth...
This book, however, is more than just a reflection of that myth; it is an attempt to shore up its sagging walls. So Mandelbaum revives in over 200 pages a picture of American government that no longer plays even in Peoria. The Vietnam War happened for the rest of us, if not for Mandelbaum, and some of the basic ideas handed to generations of Gov. 40 veterans no longer ring true...