Word: myths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words and tactics at the table made it clear that what he sought there (agreement being impossible) was world understanding of the misunderstanding. He was trying to demonstrate once & for all that true negotiations with the Russians were not possible, and that fake negotiations, based on the myth of "the unanimity of the great powers," would prove a fatal trap for U.S. policy. Since Molotov was tougher and more plainly destructionist than he had to be, the Russian helped Marshall make his point...
...children finish high school, only one out of five who finish high school goes to college. But most of the 25,000 U.S. high schools were still acting as if all their kids intended to go to college. Studebaker believes that educational reverence for the "whitecollar myth" produces frustrated and maladjusted citizens. Why not frankly admit that most girls would be housekeepers and most men mechanics, farmers and tradespeople-and train them accordingly...
...more frequent on U.S. bookshelves were new books about American heroes, past & present. There was the usual swelling of Lincolniana. The most compact was Paul Angle's The Lincoln Reader, the most controversial was J. G. Randall's Lincoln, the Liberal Statesman. The other myth amaking, the Roosevelt myth, was being shaped by varied hands, including F.D.R.'s bodyguard. Son Elliott edited a fat volume of his father's letters written between the ages of five and 22, and the President's Vatican representative, Myron C. Taylor, brought out the platitudinous Wartime Correspondence Between President...
Long ago, when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear...
...Ireland a generation ago would have dared contradict the smitten heart of Poet William Butler Yeats. Like the fabulous bird of Greek myth, the phoenix about whom he wrote in these lines was unique, alone of her species. Born in London, the daughter of an aristocratic Irish officer, tall, stately Maud Gonne (pronounced Gun) was educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said...