Word: fictional
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There is a second myth which functions also in the upper echelons of Faculty and pupils. This myth is the Fiction of Hard Work: "proper pay for quite unusual extremes of toil, labor and responsibility." The student learns to think, incant, believe (so also do his teachers, tutors, Deans) that intellectual work is, in itself, exceptionally oppressive, burdensome or overwhelming. There is, indeed, a quite pervasive myth that labors like these are possibly more difficult, more burdensome, and more exacting, than the less-rewarded work of physical day labor. University professors really do believe that this is difficult work. They...
...facts, of course, can be another man's fiction. By imputing the worst motives to the Soviets, Jackson is not likely to be proved gullible or an easy mark. On the other hand, détente will not be achieved without taking some calculated risks on both sides. What U.S. diplomacy lacked before Kissinger was a certain creative imagination. Jackson's meat-ax approach threatens to cut off any new departures before they can be proved successful...
...spends a great portion of the movie recruiting and training a sort of Mission: Impossible task force to give him a hand. Hit! is vehemently anti-dope, condoning the pathology of its hero and his commando blitzkriegs on the dope dealers with the self-righteous pragmatism common to pulp fiction. Anyone who can see beyond this, or below it, will catch a smooth performance by Williams and a funny, skittish performance by Richard Pryor, as one of Williams' recruits. Pryor's humor pierces through his characterization to mock the whole movie with energy and finesse...
...Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole and a Member of Parliament himself for 26 years, Horace was in a position to observe the haul monde of his time. Though he also wrote political diaries, art books and fiction (his The Castle of Otranto is the prototype of the gothic novel), Walpole wielded his pen effectively and entertainingly in writing letters to such friends as Poet Thomas Gray and Diplomat Sir Horace Mann. Sensing his correspondence's value to posterity, the bachelor author once said: "Nothing gives so just an idea of an age as genuine letters. History waits...
...FICTION 1-The Billion Dollar Sure Thing...