Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...full hour of Streisand's peculiarly nasal voice is about 45 minutes too much, and that her choice of songs-Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long; Animal Crackers in My Soup-can be appalling. The Streisand talent is considerable, but it is getting lost in a myth...
...making that act a felony. Last week he came up for sentencing in New York's Federal District Court, where Judge Harold Tyler Jr. dismissed his argument that igniting a draft card is a form of free speech, but announced dryly that he would not "create a myth of martyr-hood." After handing down a three-year sentence, the judge suspended it on condition that Miller obtain a new draft card, carry it as required by law, and submit to induction if drafted...
...business, it is more than ever before a matter of long-term projection and growth rather than of quick profits. "It generally takes plain, simple, unappetizing patience to achieve a business goal," says Manhattan Stockbroker Armand G. Erpf. "The overnight fortune is a myth." Business leaders are notably patient. The typical top executive has been with his company for 25 years and worked up through the ranks. Salesmanship is also becoming an ever more complicated exercise in patience, supported by huge amounts of research and strategy; it is not unusual for a salesman to work years to land...
...Chinese leader actually more closely resembles the prototypical Chinese emperor than any of his heroes in the Marxist pantheon. Eventually, he said, the better side of the feudal Chinese ruler may reassert itself in his successors. China is still governed, after all, by a "great Confucian political fiction, the myth of rule by virtue...
...order. The emperors were constantly spelling out the true doctrines, having them read in the Confucian temples and studied by all scholars. Heterodoxy and deviation could not be permitted, or if they did exist, could not be acknowledged to exist. Even when the foreigners were more powerful, the myth of China's superiority had to be solemnly recorded and preserved in ritual. This stress on orthodoxy strikes one today when Peking is continuing its nationwide indoctrination in Chairman Mao's true teachings...