Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the Waterbury, Conn., rally at the end of John Kennedy's 1960 campaign is a legend in itself? Political Writer David Broder recalled it again a few days ago. Kennedy was five hours late, not arriving until 2:30 a.m. Thousands waited in the autumn night, overjoyed that at last the slender young candidate had appeared. The American promise stood in front of them. They did not want to go to bed, to break the magic moment...
...pause to the country's yearning for another interlude of political uplift. Anyone who has traveled the nation during these past 15 years and paused to measure the Kennedy feeling has sensed it beneath the surface. The Senator these days seems almost as much a captive of the legend as the man who is exploiting it. He rides along with relish. But he also is driven to keep up with the legend, build...
...story is adapted from the narrative of the 12th century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who wrote the first formal version of the Grail legend. Perceval (Fabrice Luchini), a Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads...
What began on November 13, 1875 in New Hav Harvard scored four goals and four touchdowns while holding Yale scoreless, has evolved from modest origins into a living legend. When Herbert Leeds scored the first points ever in Harvard-Yale football game by falling on a loose ball that had eluded the Yale football game by falling on a loose ball that had eluded the Yale goaltenders in the 1875 game, there were few people there who would have predicted the rivalry would develop into such a grand spectacle...
...primitive reaper two millenniums before Cyrus McCormick. They cut roads through the forests, sometimes paved them with timber and stone and rumbled over them in carriages that had wheels rimmed with iron. Above all, the Celts were superb storytellers who bequeathed a literary legacy ranging from the Arthurian legend to Tristram and Isolde...