Word: myth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cadogan told the Council that unity of the Nile Valley, one of the cardinal notes in the Egyptian appeal, is a "myth." He contended that the Anglo-Egyptian 20-year pact which runs until 1956, is legally in force and that the Council should drop Egypt's charges...
...light of day. The committee could do the country a real service by uncovering them. But this particular investigation has its own merits from the point of view of the Republicans. For the magic name of Roosevelt is involved. FDR's administration will in time become a rosy myth, and the name Roosevelt will in time be envoked by aspiring Democrats with the same reverence that Republicans use in referring to Lincoln. By attempting to discredit the late President through his son, Brewster's probe may have the effect of delaying the day when the Roosevelt myth becomes an effective...
...swinish, so long as they keep it verbal, is a notion which did very well for the period of English quietism in which it was most popular, but in rough times like the present it is too often an excuse for nonparticipation in public life. The common-garden myth of toleration goes about like this: permitted to express themselves, "extremists" "blow off steam," and are consequently less dangerous; the "extremes" neutralize each other in some way and serve as a means of locating the current Middle Ground, where the commonsensical common man will always ultimately take his stand. The trouble...
Franck: Psyché & Le Chasseur Maudit (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). In Psyché, Franck characteristically overlaid a classic pagan myth with some of his own emotional religiosity. Its companion tone poem, Le Chasseur, based on Teutonic myth, does not come off so well. Performance: excellent...
Paris el Khoury's excursion into history, even if "dubious," was certainly pointed at the myth of a Jewish "race." Readers up to examining the matter might look at C. S. Coon's The Races of Europe. Essentially, since peoples practicing Judaism appear in each of the three great stocks of mankind, Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid, there is no Jewish race in the proper biological sense of the word...