Word: nchhausen
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...will be showing a number of films from Foreign Cultures 76, “Mass Culture in Nazi Germany,” as part of their regular calendar, in adition to screening films for the class every Monday afternoon. Two of the films being shown are Münchhausen and Rambo: First Blood, the last of which Professor Rentschler believes portrays a jingoistic patriotism similar to Nazi propaganda...
Those afflicted with the syndrome (named after Baron Münchhausen, an 18th century raconteur whose tales of adventure made his name synonymous with exaggeration) are driven to immerse themselves in hospital dramas. With a combination of medical knowledge and dramatic flair, victims produce or fake symptoms so skillfully that they are admitted to hospitals, treated and often operated on for nonexistent disorders...
There were days when Sir John Mandeville and Baron von Mnchhausen told tales and people swallowed them. People were no more credulous then than-now, but less was known of the geography of the world and of what strange things might be discovered in unknown parts. It was unwise to doubt too much for fear of being damned later by the facts...
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