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...obsessed with allegory. Everybody knows what the world looks like these days. They've seen it on TV. So as a writer you have to be more transcendental, more allegorical. Nearly everything has more to it than meets the eye. Even my life." Pausanias, that ancient Greek connoisseur of myth and meaning, would be pleased. So would Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo. They're both mentioned in Hav, well before the allegorical tunnel...
...against infidels everywhere. It was his name that filled collection boxes in extremist mosques across the Islamic world. The National Counterterrorism Center believes that militants linked to al-Zarqawi may be operating in as many as 40 countries. In Iraq his dark charisma turned him into a figure of myth and legend. A top commander of al-Nasser Salaheddin, an insurgent group, told TIME last month, "When children in Fallujah and Ramadi play war games, some will be mujahedin, others will be Americans, but the role everybody wants to play is Abu Mousab. The biggest, toughest boy will get that...
...Great.' And the studio were beside themselves and fought it as hard as they could." (Says Elizabeth Gabler, president of Fox 2000: "We wanted to make sure that we explored every possible look. [Ultimately], we were thrilled with the choice.") This is the kind of behavior that leads to Myth...
...Reagan’s election, in the middle of our senior year, would be enshrined in mainstream political myth as a new morning, but to many of us it felt instead like night descending—a final curtain on the progressive era that, for kids our age, had been the only politics we’d ever known. We graduated into the worst recession since the Hoover era and a nation that had inexplicably elected a nuke-happy movie star from California. To this day, I associate that gloomy moment with the bleakly stirring sounds of the Clash?...
...academic community talked to each other about what they saw slipping away. In conversations among professors and nurses, among technicians and police officers, we remembered what made Harvard great—things we too long took for granted. Even as the president’s defenders created the public myth that a handful of lazy leftist professors had brought down a heroic bold thinker, the Faculty talked intensively about what really had gone wrong. Now that we have relearned important lessons about the values of the University, we must not forget them. In most analyses of Harvard?...