Word: myths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems that these days, after the myth of the possibility of a congenial and happy world has been ripped from our grasp by the mandolin and ranting politicos, that maybe the spirit of the Beats is the only viable one for those of us who are tired of waiting around for a fight we don't want, who agree with Kerouac that stupidity is prolific, who are just not naive enough any longer to be hip, who just want to live. and stop playing magician with the realities of our lives, pulling revolutions out of thin air, pulling our personalities...
...peace-minded Democrats against the October 15 Moratorium. Sam Brown and David Hawk, the organizers of this activity, found Lowenstein to be a source of constant obstruction. He has come around now that he has no other choice, lest he be outflanked by Senator Harris. The press created the myth that Lowenstein drove Johnson out of office, and it should not be allowed to similarly distort the facts about October...
...other myth concerns the "freeatmosphere for discussion" that the Center finds as its main product. Of well over 100 professional personnel, Bowie was able to point only to one or two who were "radical." Even those two, it turns out, were hired by the University and not by the Center. When the Center began funding their projects, it was unaware of the political ideas of the two applicants...
...colorful and violent games of hockey and football have won increasing prominence. But with one brave stroke, the 1969 Mets reversed that trend. Their own exhilarating transformation from hopeless clowns to heroic champions has extricated baseball from its beer-and-TV tawdriness and elevated it to the realm of myth it occupied long, long...
...strange, and tragic sometimes, how the press can deify an athlete because of an isolated moment of excellence and increase the myth until his demise, when it occurs is catastrophic...