Word: myth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these facts are in dispute or particularly difficult to come by, but the makers of Mississippi Burning, in their pursuit of a box-office smash, chose to ignore them. In the process, they have not only turned history inside out but have also lent support to a racist myth. Says Seth Cagin, co-author of We Are Not Afraid, a rigorous account of the Philadelphia murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty." It is bad enough that...
...when the Black Death wiped out more than half its population. While it is true that Sienese painting and sculpture for the next 150 years did not have the extraordinary charge of radical invention that pervaded Florence, the idea of Sienese cultural decline after the great plague is a myth. On the whole, Sienese painting is gentler than Florentine, more graziosa, Gothic, conservative...
...spectator along with the readers. Davies does not need spooks or disembodied souls to demonstrate that even the most mundane, realistic events can be steeped in magic. Simon Darcourt, an Anglican clergyman, a professor of Greek and the secretary of the Cornish Foundation, believes "that everybody had a personal myth," that people's lives unfold in accordance with invisible but implacable patterns. Despite his extensive education, Darcourt sees limitations in a logic used as "a means of straining out of every problem the whisperings of intuition...
...around Cincinnati live some 50 families who in an earlier time of myth and legend might have been accused of drinking from Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth. Yet even in today's pragmatic, scientific world, their arteries do seem to carry an elixir of long life. The members of these families, says investigator Dr. Dennis Sprecher of the University of Cincinnati, "typically live for long periods of time, into their 80s and 90s, with very few instances of heart disease, if indeed they have...