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...title suggests, though, the novel's intended allusion is to India's legendary past. In this case, it's the cosmic myth of Shiva, the Hindu god of annihilation. But the deity's link to Meera (and to India as she self-destructs and regenerates) is labored. If anything, Meera more closely resembles, even fantasizes about being, the goddess Parvati, Shiva's spurned consort and the mother of Ganesh, the elephant...
...rest of the pack? Most people would tell you it is a tolerance for risk, and most people would be wrong. Having studied 22 years of performance data on more than 7,000 growth companies, I discovered that the idea that entrepreneurs are, by definition, risk takers is a myth. Curiously, many entrepreneurial leaders actually lose their nerve as they become successful. That may sound like a reasonable trade-off, but this tendency can hurt a firm's chances for long-term success and growth...
...optimism of the 1960s has long since passed and the belief that man can rule his own life is only an unrealized myth, David J. Samuels ’89 tells us in “Only Love Can Break Your Heart.” In the preface to this new book—which consists of a decade’s worth of his essays that have appeared in such publications as The New Yorker—Samuels informs readers that his story “has something to do with our national gift for self-delusion...
...friends at the Berklee College of Music or the New England Conservatory.And as far as Redman was concerned, his two selves were too different to interact. In his words, “Never the twain shall meet.”“I kind of had constructed this myth for myself that, in order to be creative, I couldn’t be analytical,” Redman says. “In order to feel I couldn’t think too much. In order to be expressive I couldn’t be focused and disciplined...
...work more substantial than a rap recording.We see this barrier in Shvarts’s project too. Take, for instance, the guest column published in the Yale Daily News last Friday, in which Shvarts laid claim to her project. She wrote, “Just as it is a myth that women are ‘meant’ to be feminine and men masculine, that penises and vaginas are ‘meant’ for penetrative heterosexual sex (or that mouths, anuses, breasts, feet or leather, silicone, vinyl, rubber, or metal implements are not ‘meant?...