Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through history. It is not enough to demythologize and then throw away. "You can't present content naked," says Father John Dunne of Notre Dame. "It's always in a form. Modern man loves myth as much as his ancestors. It's just that OUF own myths are not as easy to see." In the same way, it is too easy an answer to dismiss the Trinitarian formula as mere outdated symbol. "Never say only a symbol," Paul Tillich perennially warned his pupils-and his life work is testimony to the importance of symbol to the human...
...Golden Age of Harvard theatre may be just a myth. But the '50's were clearly a time when undergraduate drama thrived on its limitations -- cramped facilities, lack of funds, faulty technical equipment -- and above all on the absence of a drama center...
Plop No. 3 feebly splashes a slavey with the sequins of movie stardom in some hollow mockery of the fame-and-success myth. Cinderella should...
...myth of Director Mike Nichols, invulnerable up to now, has been that he could bust a comic rib with an onionskin script, but The Apple Tree is too thin for even his nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written...
...himself as a hero battling against insuperable odds. This particular fancy gained a wide audience when Frost went to England in 1912 and published two collections of poems. It was Ezra Pound who, in his review of A Boy's Will, launched the poet and the myth by singling out In Neglect, a five-line verse that begins, "They leave us so to the way we took." That poem, wrote Pound, had been composed "when Frost's grandfather left him in poverty because he was a useless poet instead of a money getter...