Word: mythicize
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...rock in a Japanese garden and the impact, simultaneously, of the same rock hurled. Each piece has a rather spindly framework that is part narrative, part philosophical speculation and part rendering of the collective unconscious poised perpetually between rigor and hysteria. Jomon Sho is a plunge into the mythic past and is the more literal of the two pieces Sankai Juku presented last week at New York's City Center. Kinkan Shonen is meant to be, according to a subtitle in the program, "a young boy's dream of the origins of life and death." But the excitement...
...then, an astonishing apparition: the glass capsule abruptly whooshed the Reagans-still waving-skyward, as if it were speeding them back up into the clouds, back into the fleecy, mythic realm from which they had come. A hallucination out of Erich Von Daniken: Elevators of the Gods...
Others are skeptical about an enduring shift. "The youth vote is reacting to what it perceives as a healthy economy and to the mythic leadership of Reagan," says Democratic Pollster Hart. "It is not a bellwether for the future." Murray Fishel, a Kent State University political scientist, notes that young voters are more liberal on social issues than Reagan or his party. "Students do not support the Republican platform on issues like the environment or the Equal Rights Amendment," he says. "I think the shift is toward Reagan and not Reaganism." But whether fickle or faithful, the enthusiasm of young...
Much of the appeal of the Olympics centers on individual heroes, yet heroism in the Games is lightweight; it bears none of the mythic armor of professional sports. With professional athletes, allegories develop with the records; Mantle was pain, Unitas skill, Ali poetry and power. The Olympic Games are too brief for spectators to construct a folklore. Personalities like Nadia float to the top for a few days, but only as they are attached to performances. The hero and the act are one. If an allegorical hero is to be found in the Games, it is youth in general...
...solid, betray her very fragile sense of self, her modernist need to be in control of the little things. In its better moments, this characterization is reminiscent of Mrs. Dalloway in its emphasis on the details that no one else would need to notice, that seem to take on mythic proportions in such an acutely sensitive character...