Word: legendizes
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...boyishness was more evident than economic royalism, however, at the 100th Game. It was a boyishness that seemed to hark back several decades to an innocent never-never time when all Harvard and Yale students were male and, at least in legend, privileged, lazy, outrageous and perpetually booze-fogged. Such qualities cannot have wholly dominated undergraduate life at these colleges-somebody must have done some studying-but they were very much on view in the parking lots around the Yale Bowl before Game time. The sun shone, and the old grads capered in a golden haze. Elderly stockbrokers wore caps...
...serious about evening clothes. The fashion press, to which he is acutely sensitive, was giving its most reverent attention to his Rive Gauche collections, and so the couturier decided to teach his critics a lesson. Using lavish matierials, he created dazzling sequences of adornments fit for the queens of legend: Spanish motifs that might have been painted by Velásquez, extravagent conjuries of ancient China and, most famous, the Russian-inspired "rich peasant" collection that was front-page news for the New York Times in 1976. The theme was copied internationally in every price range, and reflections...
...urge to reassess the Kennedy myth is understandable. But for those of us whose spirits were lifted by the New Frontier and who grew up "in the huts and villages of half the globe," often with a picture of J.F.K. on the mud wall, the legend is stirring and meaningful. Kennedy cannot be measured by his national accomplishments alone. He belongs to a larger world...
...gaudy Erechtheum stocked with black Naugahyde banquettes, pink and blue ribbons of neon, black-marble toilet stalls, and mirrors, mirrors everywhere. The mansion of Tony's dreams boasts an Olympic-size bathtub; in the foyer, statues of the Three Graces support a huge gold globe bearing the legend THE WORLD is YOURS...
...taken seriously; feeling guilty does not necessarily make one so. Adler is unusually skilled at making careful distinctions and refreshing subjects that have grown dull with familiarity. She can imaginatively argue that constitutional law is based on precepts of storytelling and find probable cause for adultery in the legend of Penelope, Ulysses' wife and a classic symbol of fidelity...