Word: mythos
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...Values are completely relative to him and his resulting inability to make choices causes his paralysis. His philosophical and practical relativism also prevents him from achieving any real relationships with the people he encounters despite the fact that he is perceptive and intelligent. Horner only manages to function through mytho-therapy, a practice recommended by the Doctor, through which he casts himself and those around him into two-dimensional roles with which he can react by conventional responses...
...counterblow was effective; villagers reported that the fleeing Viet Cong suffered approximately 400 casualties. Northeast of Saigon, government troops ambushed a Viet Cong battalion, killed or wounded 69 of the enemy. Also northeast of the capital, a three-day government offensive ended with 40 Viet Cong dead. West of Mytho, air and artillery strikes wiped out 82 Reds...
Prison to Prison. Born in Mytho, 35 miles southwest of Saigon, Minh graduated from a lycée run by the French, in 1940 enlisted in the French colonial army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that did the bid ding of the Japanese invaders. But in March 1945, when Vichy surrendered the French colony to the Japanese outright, Minh joined a band of defiant, lower-echelon soldiers who organized heroic but futile resistance to the capitulation. Minh was taken prisoner by the Japanese, beaten and tortured...
...fabric of earnest little Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's hard-trying but still disorganized South Viet Nam government. Diem's power probably does not extend as far as 30 kilometers from Saigon itself, say some knowledgeable foreign observers, and in many instances not that far. At Mytho, at Baclieu, at Vinhlong and numberless other towns and villages in the south, Viet Minh control is complete and recognized-the presence of nominal officials of the Vietnamese government notwithstanding...
Choose Your Picture. In much of the Cochin China countryside in South Viet Nam a curious duality of administration exists. In Mytho there is a regular government court. But most of the townspeople take their grievances to a Communist court three kilometers outside the town...