Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effeminate zealot hovering on the brink of insanity. It is all the more remarkable because it is not the work of some pop-psych practitioner but bears the name of the founder of psychoanalysis himself. On this showing, if not on others, Freud puts psychoanalysis in the category of myth and poetry rather than that of scientific examination...
Pinter always raises more questions than he answers, and sometimes the questions are unanswerable. Baffling the intellect while it stirs the instincts, The Homecoming operates in the realm of myth. Myth frequently proclaims the dark primacy of what D. H. Lawrence called "the blood consciousness" over the light of reason, clearly one of Pinter's intentions in this play. The dead mother plays a significant role in The Homecoming: she, like Ruth, was something of a slut. Thus the Oedipal shift of sexual power that takes place results in the overthrow of the two father figures...
...fact, as Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset observes, they are "caught up in the myth that J.F.K. was a radical President, and would have done all sorts of things, bypassing the older generation." By contrast, the Now People almost universally mock Lyndon Johnson -as Leonard laquinta, 22, of Kenosha, Wis., puts it, for his "bluffs, come-on gimmicks and intellectual dishonesty...
From the viewpoints of the politician and the sociologist, the minorities in the crucible continued to behave separately and distinctly. Only in the last decade, nearly 200 years after its enunciation, has the melting pot finally begun to perform as longtime myth would have...
...cult of the opera singer, in fact, is spiced with more fads, phobias and superstitions than are found in most primitive cultures. The most persistent myth is that girth somehow determines worth, a legend that one doctor says stems from the fact that many of the early Italian singers seemed to be congenitally fat. Today, however, with the emphasis on realistic drama and the lure of TV and films, the net weight of the singers has dropped a ton or two since the early 1900s. Still, most of them are not exactly skinny. Singing opera is extremely demanding physically...