Word: debunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...myth is easy enough to debunk. It is based on reasoning of the most specious kind. There is, say the myth makers, an unbridgeable gap between the Democratic and Republican parties. If the Democrats gain control of Congress, therefore, the Administration would have its hands tied during one of the most shaky periods of peace the world has ever seen. But the myth simply is not true. The GOP is relying on the President's Midas touch in the hope that everything he blesses will turn to votes. By tacitly lending his name to every politician who marches under...
...Circles on Paper. The authors Hanson, who have made a solid reputation with biographies of the Bronte sisters, Jane Welsh Carlyle and George Eliot, are too fair and balanced a team to want to debunk Gordon. "But a man without fault is dreadfully dull and also extremely improbable. What ... we asked ourselves, was this man really like?" He was a small, blue-eyed Scot whose charm was so great that even his enemies forgave his furious temper and Messianic pomposity. He detested formal society and despised money: often his first act on taking new office would...
...Post exposé was the work of John P. Cahn, a 33-year-old San Francisco free-lance writer who first tried to debunk Newton and Dr. Gee for the San Francisco Chronicle. He became suspicious when he got his hands on the rare, "unmeltable" metal which they claimed came from one of the flying saucers. It turned out to be nothing but pot & pan aluminum. Cahn could not get the complete proof against the men that the Chronicle wanted. But True Magazine, which once stated that flying-saucers "are real," last month ran a Cahn article questioning Newton...
Concluded Highet: "I want us to teach that even these 'classic' men were subject to human conflicts and pressures. I don't want to debunk them . . . I don't believe in the late-'20s school of showing Jefferson as a bungling dilettante, or Washington as an ignorant country squire. That's all nonsense. These were all great men, greater than you or I. But I want to keep them from being statues. That's what they've become from bad teaching...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools As a salesman for the University. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class have served as police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...