Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sixth Rose Bowl game in history emerged as a battle "to prove whether the prowess of western football is a fact or a myth," according to pre-game stories in the Los Angeles Examiner...
Fiedler confidently declares that there are four essential myths behind America's vision of the West. The first is "The Myth of Love in the Woods," or the encounter of Red Woman and White Man as seen in the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Second is "The Myth of the White Woman with a Tomahawk," or the conflict between White Woman and Red Man, exemplified by the true story of Hannah Duston, a New England lady who in 1697 axed to death ten sleeping Indians who had the misfortune to capture her. Third is "The Myth...
...authentic selves can best be seen, says Fiedler, in a myth-busting novel such as John Barth'g The Sot-Weed Factor, which purports to relate the naked, ribald truth about Pocahontas and John Smith. Fiedler also singles out Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in which a white man and an Indian struggle against being lobotomized (read "castrated") by Big Nurse in a psycho ward. In these contemporary works the spirit of the Vanishing American returns, enabling the authors to debunk traditional notions of how the West was won. This debunking criticizes...
...involvement in the war is by attacking President Pusey's concept of Harvard as an institution. Pusey has said that as an institution Harvard should not try to effect social change. Its job is only to produce individuals who will effect social change. This is the basis for the myth of University neutrality...
...than on anything else he had written in his eleven years in journalism, but he found his 450 letters running 3 to 1 in support of his position. Last week he mused over the reaction in a column for the International Herald Tribune. "We can now firmly discount the myth that practically nobody in Britain understands and supports the American stand over Viet Nam," he wrote...