Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lawrence Lowell, her immediate answer became a legend. "The president," she said, "has gone to Washington to call on Mr. Taft." Many Harvard presidents have earned such awe. Of the four men who have ruled Harvard since 1869, three were giants among educators -Lowell, Charles W. Eliot and James...
Television created the Namath legend. The flaky white football cleats. The longish hair. The FuManchu mustache. The perfectly thrown touchdown bombs. And the newspapers, by religiously quoting Namath's reaction to his publicity, did the rest. Overnight, Namath's name became a household word, and the unfavorable reaction to it by the perpetrators of the All-American clean-living school only strengthened Namath's appeal...
...know what I was expecting when I went to see the World's Greatest Hypnotist: Evil Eye Fleagle, Mandrake, Dr. Strange. I'd seen his handbills: A long shot of him standing on a girl who was stretched, entranced, between two chairs. "The Man-The Legend," it said. Everyone must be disappointed when they meet the World's Greatest. He's just a human being: no two-tone eyebrows, no electricity oozing from the fingertips...
...despite their pessimism, they have a hope that, like the phoenix of legend which consumed itself in fire, this country, too, can rise again from its own ashes...
...Herostrattis has a story, but no plot, at least if we conceive of plot as progress. In the Greek legend ??? burnt down the temple of Artemis at Ephesens to gain ever-lasting fame. In Levy's retelling Max, the protagonist, sick of the "crap-heap" and the guardians of the nation's institutions who have us "hopping around like jumping beans," decides to kill himself, and takes his intention to an ad agency. He offers the head of the agency. one Farson, the chance to handle his suicide in any way he sees...