Word: myth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solo operations, and one editor describes them unabashedly as the "alternative press" of the era. The wished-for kinship is not with some Age of Aquarius tabloid, of course, but with pamphleteers like Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton. The newsletter gurus see themselves as disabusers of Wall Street myth, as missionaries of economic truth. Since readers can lose big money if their guru is wrong, the work is fraught with the peril of being hanged, though only in effigy...
...MYTH Most guillotine victims were aristocrats...
...MYTH The guillotine was the main form of execution...
...MYTH When the poor rioted over the price of bread, Marie Antoinette cried, "Let them eat cake...
...that Occidental travelers would add their own speculations about the People's Republic. Two years ago, Mark Salzman wrote Iron and Silk, a recollection of his years as an English teacher in Changsha. Next spring he will produce a novel, tentatively titled Journey to the West, that mixes Chinese myth and actuality. And next month will bring The Great Black Dragon Fire, by veteran journalist Harrison Salisbury. The fire was not fiction; it occurred in 1987, and it burned a Manchurian forest "so large that, like China's Great Wall, it could have been seen from the moon...