Word: myth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or a phrase or reading about the "Xian myth...
...demythifying process, argues Nina Tumarkin, professor of history at Wellesley College and author of The Cult of Lenin, is necessary if the Soviet Union is to right itself. "Lenin is being brought down to earth to make way for the new myths of perestroika," she says. If Gorbachev's political reform is more than a myth and the government is able to find its legitimacy in increased democracy, it might not need Lenin anymore...
...Myth: Affirmative action and a buoyant economy have provided working blacks with a level playing field...
...Myth: Overt discrimination has virtually vanished in the past 20 years...
...Myth: As prejudice recedes, the U.S. will gradually move toward integration without governmental compulsion...