Word: legend
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...front of Emerson Hall, one guide tells a story--one of the tour's staples--about another spring day when Gertrude Stein was taking a philosophy exam in a class taught by William James. Legend has it that Stein wrote on the top of the exam that she couldn't bear to take a test on such a beautiful day, and that she was going outside. James gave her an A, saying that she truly understood the meaning of philosophy...
Harvard rowers are a bit hesitant when describing Parker. Few words come to them to describe a man regarded to be a living legend. When pulling on the ergs or rowing in the tanks, the Crimson rowers are constantly aware when Parker is watching...watching...watching...
...Laurentiis' ability to dazzle and deal is scarcely diminished. In February the 70-year-old legend rose from the tar pits of defeat and litigation to form another company, Dino De Laurentiis Communications, with the financial backing of his friend Giancarlo Parretti, the controversial Italian moneyman who also plans to buy MGM/UA for $1.2 billion. Dino's planned renaissance will begin with five films and a $67 million budget...
...merger merger was finalized in 1971, when the colleges approved co-educational living within the houses. Still, small vestiges of the pre-merger era remind us of the absurdity of sex-segregated living: legend has it that hooks on the doors of some North House rooms were used by Radcliffe women to prop open their doors when hosting male guests...
...most riveting and explosive portion of this book deals with Johnson's 1948 campaign for the Senate. The favorite was Coke Stevenson, "by far the most popular Governor in the history of Texas, a public official, moreover, who had risen above politics to become a legend." As if beating "Mr. Texas" was not burden enough, L.B.J. developed a kidney stone. Daily he made speeches and shook hands and then collapsed in a car in agony. Eventually the stone was removed, and he was off again, against the advice of doctors. The suffering paid off: in the primary runoff...