Word: myths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When asked about Soviet Russia, he made gently critical or defensive statements. The strongest thing he would say was: "I detest dictatorship," quickly adding that the idea that Hitler's dictatorship and Stalin's dictatorship are alike is "criminal ... a myth...
Your fairly accurate account of Mrs. Riddle and Avon Old Farms [TIME, March 22] repeats a myth, unjust to the memory of a headmaster of the school who suffered for ten years under her devastating domination, and ended broken in health and mind. His name was not selected from the telephone directory; he was suggested for the position by the dean of a theological seminary in New York...
...interesting to note that the seven Roman Catholics in the class shared these general ideas. They knew no more about their religion than the rest, in spite of the popular myth that 'at least the Catholics know what they believe...
Henry Wallace pretended not to hear. He strode into Washington, denounced universal military training,* said that Russian aggression was a myth, and then bustled back to Manhattan. He also found time to order half a ton of cow manure worked into the 5 ft. by 15 ft. plot adjoining his Park Avenue headquarters, in preparation for corn planting...
Surprisingly, the readers did not miss the scandal. Explains one editor, "Fan book readers don't want to hear anything derogatory said about the star. They want the myth. . . . We are writing inverse statements of frustration. We paint beautiful pictures of love, excitement, wealth, prestige, security and glamor. . . . We give the reader a feeling of identification [with] the stylized intimacy of a movie star's existence. Every marriage we describe must have an idyllic, untarnished quality to it. If you want to keep on running stories about a star, you must strongly intimate that everything is just...