Word: mythicize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very long ago, Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris were a literary love match of nearly mythic proportions. Married since 1981, they were best-selling and award-winning authors who were raising six children together; they gave interview upon interview describing how they critiqued each other's work, never allowing a single manuscript to leave their home without, as Dorris once put it, "consensus on every word." While some authors vary the dedications in their books, ticking off family and friends as the years go by, for Erdrich and Dorris, it seemed, there was only one Muse--the other. "To Michael...
There are many reasons why Core classes taught outside departments will continue to appeal to non-concentrators. Such classes are designed with non-concentrators in mind: they require little prior knowledge and will not put students in academic environments for which they are unprepared. Many Core courses enjoy mythic reputations for their quality, the fame and talent of their instructors and the comfortable manner in which they introduce students to unfamiliar fields...
...would be hard to pretend that de Kooning's output in the '60s and '70s, after he moved to East Hampton, on Long Island, measured up to the qualities of this earlier work, although his reputation by then had grown to near mythic proportions. (So did his prices: in 1989, just before the great art-market bubble burst, $20.1 million was paid at auction for a 1955 painting, Interchange.) De Kooning was a tough bird, but no talent could have been unaffected by the scale of his alcoholic bouts, and the suds-and-mayonnaise color and scatty marking...
...play. Baal is an intensely subjective play; its moods, speed and events are all seen through Baal's perspective. All other characters are either abused, sacrificed or mere caricatures. They are pathetic because he despises them or beautiful when he desire them. He is a figure of mythic proportions...
...treated to a very different this and that in the simultaneous broadcast of the State of the Union address and the announced verdict of the O.J. Simpson civil trial. Observers on television and in print tried to only connect--the President's reference to race troubles and the allegedly mythic figure of O.J. and the appearance of J.C. Watts Jr., the African-American Congressman who was selected to give the g.o.p. response. There was no logical relationship among these pieces; connections had to be forced. It was too hard to give disintegration its due, much less to take satisfaction...