Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Thursday night, undergraduate and graduate students gathered in the Leverett G-tower common room to view Pathfinder, an Academy-award nominated film about the ancient Sami legend of a young man who risks his life to save his people from the evil tribe that killed his own family. The Sami are an indigenous people from northern Finland...
Papa John's record is all the more impressive in view of the sluggish growth of the pizza market, which has reached a mature middle age. (Legend traces the modern mass industry to the appetites of Americans after World War II, when G.I.s who had been stationed in Italy returned with enthusiastic tales of open-faced cheese pies.) While Americans consume pizza at the rate of 350 slices a second, the market for restaurant pizzas has been growing just 2% a year. Yet Papa John's customers keep coming back for more. So far this year, Papa John's sales...
Because the legend of the Jackelope only prevails outside the counties of Middlesex and Suffolk, one can assume that the range of first-year Harvard initiations won't include drinking the blood of a freshly killed bobcat or skinning and dressing an unlucky raccoon. Since most cronies of Harvard students will have never stood eye to eye with a grizzly bear, the bold graduate can add distinction to a Chase Manhattan application with bird calling and scat identification skills. Why wait until schmoozing with a client on a Maine hunting lease to accrue tracking abilities when a multitude of outfitters...
...experience with the oarsmen the jolt of adrenaline that accompanies "rowing through" a weaker, less competent boat. We approach inner peace as the rowers transcend individuality to form, in the memorable words of a former Harvard crew legend, "a nautical engine vastly more powerful than the sum of its parts," the synchronous clicking of their oarlocks suggesting a driving collective pulse...
...double-voiced lyrics, whistles, duck quacks, heavy bass, strings, weird speakers, guitars and classical piano merge into a miraculous synthesis of noise, beats and poetry. One of the best songs on the album, "Misinformed," opens with funky low toms accented by pounded anvils and noises straight out of the Legend of Zelda, followed by a synthesized melody from what sounds like a tunable whoopie cushion. Bubbling out of this conglomeration of noise and rhythm comes Doughty, singing his own special brand of witty and penetrating poetry...