Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other designers are not so sure. Says Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard: "Paris is still as important to fashion as Santa Claus is to Christmas. It may be a sentimentally cherished myth, but there's nothing like it to make the whole world feel like shopping." Adds Galanos: "It is not enough for a single designer to lower a hem or change a silhouette. It must still happen in Paris to catch...
...Your description of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith as "part of American folklore" is more apt than you probably intended. Apparently even TIME has fallen for the myth that Merrill Lynch pays salesmen salaries rather than commissions (not true-compensation is directly related to production) and that it doesn't sell mutual funds because of a possible conflict for research ideas between mutual funds and individual customers (reality: customers' balances diverted into mutual funds are no longer available to salesmen...
...this comes from a Labor government," says Senior Shop Steward John Recordon of London's Palmer Aero Products. "I can't see any blame for the worker in all this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson's appeal for Britons to show some of the "Dunkirk spirit" is "so much piffle" to Electroplater Harold Lane. Southampton Dock Leader Trevor Stallard argues that Wilson should have clamped down on profits first, then come to labor for cooperation. "Every...
...these manners which set the tone for the whole community in Britain-are unsympathetic to the crudity and explicitness of performance." The result affects everything from the quality of technical education to precise manufacturing standards, and helps explain why the atavistic apprentice system persists, with its "myth of the craftsman and his incommunicable skills." Arthur Koestler agrees that "psychological factors and cultural attitudes are at the root of Britain's economic evils...
According to the official Soviet Encyclopedia, Moses was a myth and the Bible is simply a collection of unedifying tall stories. Nonetheless, God's word has all of a sudden become a bestseller in Russia. Last month, Moscow's Publishing House for Political Literature brought out a new book called Biblical Stories containing Lamblike retellings of Old Testament passages, illustrations in color drawn from classical Western art, and sardonic commentaries by two atheist editors. Within a few hours, the entire first edition of 100,000 copies was completely sold...