Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, the aspirations of France and the dictates of De Gaulle have appeared to be inseparable?a tribute to both his undeniable greatness and his penchant for saying it so often that people believed it. Last week the myth that France and De Gaulle are one lay shattered forever amid the garbage festering in the streets of Paris, the litter of uprooted paving stones, the splinters of chestnut trees hacked down to make barricades, the blood spilled on the capital's boulevards. France was a nation in angry rebellion ?at times, it seemed, not far removed from civil...
Hypnosis is surrounded by a persistent myth: whatever a subject says while in a trance represents the real, deep-down truth. Lawyers have always been wary of the claim, although lately some have changed their minds. On film and videotape, psychiatric sessions with murder defendants under the influence of hypnotism and so-called "truth drugs" are being shown in U.S. courtrooms (TIME, Dec. 29, April 12). Last week, at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Boston, New York's Dr. Herbert Spiegel warned that such evidence is dubious indeed...
...though the Committee demonstrates the myth of Harvard's uniqueness and says "there's no turning the clock back," it implies that only the intangible aura of the community can save the University's standards of excellent. The chapter on The Harvard Community concludes with the vague but pregnant advice: "It is appropriate to ask whether it lies within its power to make Cambridge a more attractive setting for life as well as for work. . . . By providing a milieu encouraging to the development of a variety of subcommittees it could widen the options for involvement open to the Faculty...
...Carmichael and Robert Kennedy, who is now much more popular with students abroad than at home. The far-out radicals idolize not the old leaders of Eastern Europe but such revolutionaries as Ho Chi Minh, Regis Debray and, above all, Che Guevara, around whom grows the martyr's myth...
...woman suggested the service be available only to married women. The possibility of serving unmarried women may not have occurred to most respondents and if it had, more women would have favored separate policies for married and unmarried. The (3 to 1) results are highly encouraging and belie the myth of opposition among laymen to a liberal and forthright approach to birth control. In fact it seems that the professional policy-making middle class is acting neither in the spirit of the church as personified by Cardinal Cushing's ecumenicism, nor in accord with public opinon; rather it is upholding...