Word: myth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Morgan Freeman a steadying influence; Andre Braugher a Harvard student who finds Emersonian idealism of small help in mastering the bayonet. It is the movie's often awesome imagery and a bravely soaring choral score by James Horner that transfigure the reality, granting it the status of necessary myth. Broad, bold, blunt, Glory is everything that a film like Miss Daisy, all nuance and implication, is not. But arriving together, they somehow hearten: they widen the range of our responses to what remains the central issue of our past, our present, our future...
...kids we are helping are thinking about going to college and just don't know how to get there," Jackson says. "We try to dispell the myth that college is an ivory tower...
This is really a corollary to providing equal opportunity. The American myth of the level playing field can never become reality as long as children in Roxbury and rural Mississippi do not have the same access to education as children in Greenwich...
...absurdly trying to write another novel to keep his ectoplasm from sloughing away in rivulets of goo. Characterization is perfunctory, with an odd exception: Beaumont's eight- month-old twin babies are vividly and charmingly described. For King fans this may be the sort of thing that sustains the myth that "he writes so well...
...outline this story is pure Malamud. It sets a sympathetic vision of the underdogs and downtrodden against a backdrop of myth and spacious possibilities. When the narrative breaks off, the good guys are losing, a situation that is also typical of its author. But in the notes he left for the remaining four chapters, Malamud outlined a way for Yozip to be of further, and possibly victorious, service to those who had adopted...