Word: debunks
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...history. At its premiere in 1935, it received mixed notices and was thought by many to be a failure; yet now it is considered by some to be the great American opera. Blacks were initially offended by its implicit Uncle Tomism; Duke Ellington declared, "The times are here to debunk Gershwin's lampblack Negroisms." Yet black singers have sprung to prominence in its roles, among them Todd Duncan (the first Porgy), Leontyne Price and William Warfield (in a 1952 revival) and Clamma Dale (in the 1976 Houston Grand Opera production). Today an opera written by a white composer that...
While trying to debunk the "myths" which rule our strategic thinking, Mr. Louis so effectively muddles the issue that one is left wondering where he has led us after meandering through an extended tour of the world of illogic. His first major point is that the threat of war in Europe is virtually non-existent, and in this he is quite right. But, in his desire to see us put less emphasis on the defense of Europe, he clearly fails to see that the sole reason that war in Europe is unlikely is that America and her allies have remained...
Harvard's Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) program--and similar offerings at other Massachusetts universities are attempting to "debunk the myth that you have to be a math major to work with computers," said Michael R Paige, manager of Wang Laboratories "We want to redirect--people who have good back grounds in all field and make them more marketable," said Paige, who has worked as a curriculum consultant...
Officials in Washington declined to dismiss the program as a Soviet propaganda ploy. Said a State Department spokesman: "We don't want to debunk something that might succeed in bringing about a greater feeling of concern about nuclear war in the Soviet Union." Still, the day when 700,000 people gather in Red Square to oppose nuclear weapons, as they did in New York City's Central Park last month, is probably as distant as ever...
Most excesses do not display the exaggerator's art in it's best light: they are merely blurbs and rodomontade. In more complex usage, exaggeration does dynamic and suggestive work: it can be used to frighten or threaten , to reassure(oneself or others),to glorify and debunk, and, above all, to relieve the tedium of life to entertain. Exaggeration is one of the methods of all myth-from Olympian deities to giants like Paul Bunyan and John Henry, to mythic historical figures- Mao, say, or George Patton. A child exaggerates his parents' powers to the point...