Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eleven-year sunspot cycle, to solar flares and sunrise, and during eclipses. French Science Writer Michel Gauguelin foresees a new science of astrobiology, which could vindicate the intuited conclusion of the ancients that extraterrestrial forces affect human life, and at the same time explode the anachronistic conglomeration of myth and magic cluttering up modern astrology...
...effect: the more programs strive to be with it, the farther they veer from recognizable life. The view of youth as a vast criminal conspiracy relieved only by Mod Squad's undercover trio is hardly building bridges over the generation gap. Yet TV seems content to maintain the myth-until a new one comes along...
Although Womack deals with the origins of the mythic Zapata, he is not taken in by the myth. Rather than the story of a man and how he changed the world, Womack tells the story of a little world and a man who epitomized it. The tale ends, not with Zapata's murder, but with the final dissolution of the movement he started. In the history of a populist movement the people are the real heroes and the story ends with their surviving our not surviving...
Clark also spoke about educational inequalities. "Individual fulfillment is impossible without education, because of the complexity of our society," he said, but the "right to an equal education" is still a myth...
...meeting that one of X's founders, a man who has since fled to New York to escape cultural persecution, formulated a basic X goal: to be misunderstood by the Press. Therefore, I would personally like to thank the CRIMSON for printing John G. Short's splendid melange of myth, error, and misinterpretation about H-R X. Randolph Boog First Hyperion Harvard-Radcliffe...