Word: myths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marse Joe, a practical man, kept telling himself there was nothing to the Yankee myth. He would beat them in a couple of games during spring training just to prove it. In one game he used five pitchers, three of them in one inning. In the old days, Marse Joe was famed for his reluctance to yank out pitchers in spring exhibitions. Even so, the Yankees walloped his Red Sox two for one, and pulled into Sarasota last week chestier than ever. McCarthy had to win this...
...activities of Henry Wallace frighten the Democratic bosses, delight the Republicans, and frequently puzzle both. To Author Dwight Macdonald they are the natural antics of a split persornality who has gained a confused following by making a cult of confusion. Macdonald's subtitle is The Man and the Myth, and of the two he finds the myth more interesting and more important...
...journalists (even the women at the well) select facts. The myth, or fad, of "objectivity" tends to conceal the selection, to kid the reader into a belief that he is being informed by an agency above human frailty or human interest...
...myth of "objective journalism" reached its height about 1938-39, before the Hitler-Stalin pact, before the sharp cleavage of war reminded the Western world that the famed "two sides of a question" are not always, or even often, equal. In the confusion of the late '303, TIME departed from the principle of its prospectus, and announced that it was practicing "objective" and "scientific" journalism. It wasn't. It never will. Nor will anybody else...
...Washington really isn't his fault. Misguided legend-makers foisted such monstrosities on five generations of Americans as "Father, I cannot tell a lie," and "First in war, first in peace . . ." Those harmless little tidbits are setups for prep school cynics and picayunish parodyists. But unfortunately the well-meaning myth-manglers have escaped their due punishment. Poor old George Washington takes it all, and he's been taking it in varying doses for 150 years. It's a credit to him that he has borne it all so patiently, and that the date of his birth still strikes...