Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perfect for idealization. During the months of court appeals be encouraged the myth growing around him. His flair for the dramatic continued down to his parting words of "Don't waste any time in mourning--Organize!" and insured his elevation to martyrdom. Such a man surrounded by such a legend calls for a hard, accurate film of dignity and restrained anger. Joe Hill is not such a movie...
...Perhaps Be Damned." Eliot's famous burrowings and borrowings in Baudelaire, Buddha, Frazer's Golden Bough, the Fisher King legend, Shakespeare, the prophet Ezekiel, Ecclesiastes, Dante's Inferno, Rupert Brooke, Richard Wagner, Verlaine, Aeschylus, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Oliver Goldsmith originally helped make the poem the perennial undergraduate's hunt-and-peck guide to instant culture. But there appear to be no direct transplants from Pound. Except for an odd "an" or "who," he inserted only two words into The Waste Land: "demobbed" for "coming back out of the Transport Corps," and "demotic" to replace...
What politicians call "the Kennedy thing" is a psychological compound of iridescent myth and charisma, excitement and guilt, admiration and sometimes a morbid voyeurism. Even the blandest men in power?William Mc-Kinley, for example?can draw a maniac's fire. But the Kennedys are freighted with American legend and invite the passionate involvement of strangers. It shows in the grimy and lonely attention of people who have carved away pieces of the Dike Bridge at Chappaquiddick for souvenirs, or those who have taken to the Kennedy Center like locusts, swiping prisms from the chandeliers, bits of the wall coverings...
...Legend. Such bombast is familiar because Picasso has not been a subject of serious controversy for at least 35 years. The man has become a monument, rising from a reflecting pool of undiluted praise. For Picasso is not merely the most famous artist alive. He is the most famous artist that ever lived; more people have heard of him than ever heard the names, let alone saw the work, of Michelangelo, Rembrandt or Cezanne while they were alive. His audience is incalculable. By now, it must run into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard...
...from what is to be found in Death of the Fox. The reader who lacks the specialist's knowledge necessary to see the seams between fact and assumption is robbed of the uncertain historical Raleigh and given Garrett's plausible Fox in his place. Bright, new-made legend envelops insufficient fact...