Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps his most constructive contribution to the study of the Presidency is Burns's explosion of the popular myth of the Lonely Man in the Big Oval Room at Three a.m. which Lyndon Johnson has worked so hard to cultivate. Even if it is true that like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Johnson has tended to play off one advisor against another to make a personal decision, the fact remains that a surfeit of advice has been...
Occasionally Daisy quickens with fragments of myth-shattering dialogue, or sudden, almost surrealistic glimpses of the movie colony as a darkly gleaming horror-fantasy controlled by elegant zombies. But Hollywood self-satire is also a corridor of mirrors where movie makers are apt to start cringing at their own shadows. In adapting his novel to the screen, Scenarist Gavin Lambert softens the tone of merry irreverence and moves the action back to the comfortably distant 1930s. And Director Robert Mulligan never quite decides whether to play for heartbreaks or black humor. The strain tells on Robert Redford, a deft actor...
...events, Rumanian-born Scholar Eliade has no peer. A pipe-smoking polymath who speaks six languages and writes fluently in three, Eliade, 58, is a prolific novelist as well as chairman of Chicago's history of religion department. His new book, Mephistopheles and the Androgyne: Studies in Religious Myth and Symbol (Sheed & Ward; $5), demonstrates why he is probably the world's foremost living interpreter of spiritual myths and symbolism. Jerald Brauer, dean of Chicago's divinity school, and other scholars compare Eliade's works to those of the modern pioneer of myth collection, Sir James...
...Which Myth? However, something more is meant in The Solid Mandala: White intends to pluck a theological plum from the prunes of his style. For 20 years prestigious critics in both Britain and the U.S. have found in White the stuff of literary greatness. Dutifully following the critics' advice, the reader will find hints of great profundities behind the gothic facade. In the first place, the mandala does not simply demonstrate the exclusiveness of one consciousness from another's-even in twin brothers. Mandala does that brilliantly -the same events being seen in succession through the eyes...
Because Faulkner only rarely gave interviews about his work, never permitted journalists to pry into his private life, and refused to play the celebrity, the press made him something of a myth-laden enigma during his lifetime. The oddest myth of all is that Faulkner was a recluse in his classical Southern mansion in Oxford, Miss., and found company only in countless demijohns of bourbon while he wrenched out his primeval and difficult prose...