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...will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it." MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian President, when asked by a reporter for Germany's Der Spiegel magazine if he stood by the claim he made last year calling the Holocaust "a myth...
...cancer that had killed his grandfather.Bingham had to fill Worth’s shoes. In a Pulitzer Prize-winning story on the family, New York Times writer Alex S. Jones wrote that, according to Bingham’s father, Bingham was “terribly burdened by the myth that has grown up around Worth, a myth that compares Barry Jr.’s performance as head of the family business with what Worth might have accomplished.”But Bingham quickly assumed authority, and during his tenure the paper won three Pulitzer Prizes...
...myth? Revisionist historians have recently accused the imperial civil servants of sins ranging from selfishness to incompetence in dealing with famines. Now, British historian David Gilmour has risen to the defense of the ICS with his new book, The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj. Gilmour has already written monumental biographies of two of the most controversial figures of the Raj?the writer Rudyard Kipling and the viceroy Lord Curzon. His latest work aims to rebut the revisionist attacks and provide a more flattering group portrait of the men who ruled...
...seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase or reading about the “Xian myth.”)Carswell’s further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases?...
...lift the very language of Anne Radcliffe’s “Mysteries of Udolpho” to write her “Northanger Abbey.” She made allusions to that text and to its gothic conventions. Shakespeare’s texts play with ancient myth and the works of Ovid, but Shakespeare took those ideas and constructions much further. It takes knowledge to allude, and invention to create, but it takes no imagination whatsoever to plagiarize and copy. This case just goes to show that anyone can scribble a novel if they give...