Word: myths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English Composition, heartily endorsed Henry A. Wallace as a candidate for President on a Democratic or third party ticket last night, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Associate Professor of History, lashed out at the former Secretary of Commerce for his "cynical exploitation of the Roosevelt myth" in his attacks on the Truman administration...
Jack Conway, Boston American: "The Crimson goes into enemy territory on at loast even odds with Yale. The myth of Yale superiority is very unfounded...
...retaliation for the latest before it, and still a newer in retaliation for that, another set aflame by the stories of refugees and another still by pure rumor, and another in retaliation for that and still another by rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion of mobs, a thousand years' collective, unconscious fertilization in allegiance to one faith and culture...
...said we can advance international stability and our own democracy in the new few years "to the degree that we can demonstrate that this unique American ideal is no mere myth or legend...
Like a Vishinsky speech, I Want to Be Like Stalin attempts to build one myth about Russia and another about the world outside. To accomplish this, history is arbitrarily distorted (in 1934, a three-man committee of Stalin, Kirov, and Zhdanov saw to the revision of all history textbooks). Thus, Soviet schoolchildren are taught: during "the Great Patriotic War [World War II] . . . we proved to be the only power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of fascism, but also of inflicting on it a decisive and fatal defeat...