Word: legacyism
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It seems a low-key, mundane existence for the intensely shy woman with the larger-than-life legacy.
As he says, “I understand the legacy that precedes me...[and] I’m the first to acknowledge that I’m not Ali G. or Mother Teresa.”
Among the dwindling number of progressive intellectuals and writers who remain politically active, some have joined the Establishment, which at least offers better computers and shinier offices than the independent media start-ups that the judiciary routinely shutters. Some are even working for Shargh, a newspaper widely believed to be...
He agreed. Nabokov had explored everything: academia and the racetrack, the opera house and mountains. But he still had his father’s literary legacy to surmount.
After forays into the spheres of law, opera, and racing, Nabokov was finally drawn back to the bewitching allure of his father’s literary legacy.