Word: mythic
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...charm or convince all listeners. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman finds Iacocca's "showmanship" distasteful. "Somewhere between the excessive caution of most businessmen and the excessive bravado of Iacocca," Riesman says, "there is a position of responsible corporate leadership." A recent article in the New Republic suggests that Iacocca's mythic managerial skills may be seriously overrated. The Wall Street Journal, Iacocca's longtime antagonist, recently called him the "Motor City's most famous motor mouth." On the subject of trade conflicts with the Japanese, he does in fact speak somewhat promiscuously. Says an ex-colleague from Ford, where Iacocca worked...
ULTIMATELY, THE ISSUE is moral--not in liberal or conservative terms, but in terms of what we will tolerate from other human beings. South Africa, as did Nazi Germany, thrives on a fear and prejudice that its rulers have elevated to religious and mythic proportions. Such systems do not die or change easily, and they do not bend to want we like to believe are the subtle democratizing influences of capitalism. Today, we would not give a second thought to ridding ourselves of any connection with Nazi Germany, a regime that along with few others is startlingly similar to South...
Tommy dismisses questions about unnecessary insults and mythic intimations with a wave of his hand. "We run a clean place," he says. The man who used to own "Honest Tom's" used car dealership takes great pride in his restaurant, and chooses his words carefully when he explain the reasoning "Tommy's code...
...critics dismissed her as a freak artist. It wasn't until a year after Arbus death that the art world embraced her work. Her pieces were exhibited at the Venice Biennale, a portfolio of her work was published in Art Forum and her name "was rapidly acquiring a semi-mythic status...
...author, it seems., cannot get beyond seeing Arbus as a person who liked gutsy challenges and reveal her as someone unable to face reality. Thirteen years after her death the myth of Diane Aubus has ripened. The portray presented here tries to accomodate the fantastic element, to take the mythic status as a given and larch on to descriptions that pander to it. The result is that the public must still await a sensitive treatment of the troubled yet enigmatic person behind the lens...