Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight of the Dardanelles, are all that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers in it not a prehistoric frieze of barbarous "heroes" but a valuable prototype of the modern world...
...story of Troy, now dispersed in mocking legend," says Author Riding, "was the first tight knot that history made in time." Whether or not her unraveling of that knot and its ensuing threads will please all masculine readers, it is an exploration of legend that turns up many a psychological find, pieces together many a broken sherd of human nature. Laura Riding does not tamper with the main outline of Troy's well-known story. But she finds the clue to the Trojan War not in Paris' seduction of Helen but in the opposing temperaments of the Greeks...
...diminished by one-sixth of a magnitude in brightness. It cannot have been decreasing for very long at this rate, otherwise it would have been the brightest star in the sky less than a half century ago. But the fact of its variability does support the legend that Pleïone was once a conspicuous member of the Seven Sisters...
...children, attacked by the same urge which had already seized their elders, were going forth to reconquer the Holy Land for Christianity. Like their elders few of them ever returned. Where the army of German children went no man ever knew. All that they left behind was the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Where the French children went is better known. Many of them were kidnapped, sold to slavery in Egypt. Never until last week had the U. S. seen a juvenile mass migration comparable to the famed Children's Crusade of the 13th Century...
...lasting several hours each week-and one night of shelling was the worst Madrid had suffered in seven months. Once again the Leftists launched counteroffensives of some consequence, and the one against Rightist positions in Huesca was still battering away last week. Anarchists at last had a Spanish war legend worthy of the highest traditions of Anarchism. They insist that the death of Rightist General Emilio Mola in an airplane crash as his forces advanced upon Bilbao (TIME, June 14) was "really no accident," but due to the fact that Mola's pilot was secretly an anarchist, suicidally wrecked...