Word: legendizes
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SIPPING COLD, WEAK TEA in his unheated room, professor Jakob, the unlikely hero of Russell McCormmach's new novel, feels tragic and paralyzed wlstfulness for himself, his science, and his country. An old man, whose career was undistinguished, he recognizes his mediocrity. He can't event pass for a legend in his own mind. Even his redeeming, pure beyond ethereal dedication to physics, makes his achievements seem all the more Lackluster...
...year is a week-long series of sheep-dog trials, sheep-shearing contests, horse races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which the islanders not only eavesdrop but into which they even plug their radios for family entertainment. Legend has it that one vengeful curmudgeon attached the lone telephone wire to an electric power outlet and blew out the radios in the Falklands...
...melting-pot America of legend, plunging straight into the English language in school was a matter of pride and sheer survival. The pain of learning, and of leaving one's immigrant parents behind, was justified as necessary for progress and assimilation. But by the 1970s, prevailing notions about education and ethnicity had changed. It was believed that the cultural heritage of each student should be preserved. Accordingly, new waves of immigrant children, the majority of them Hispanics, were provided with bilingual education, as the Federal Government prodded schools to give them instruction primarily in their own language until they...
...roles, Redgrave dispalys a daft, heroic sanctity. Here she is to wear the sensible shoes of a Jo Woodward type. She won't fit; her talent is too big. So, at the start of this two-hour drama, Redgrave and the viewer strain and squint to miniaturize her legend into the everyday character of Leenie Cabrezi. It is an act of self-denial: she must lower the pilot light of her unique intensity and convince through an effort of will and craft...
...racing position. Above the photograph, bold letters proclaimed something like. A movie about crossing boundaries exceeding limitations and giving everything you've got." A few weeks later a different ad appeared. This one showed Hemingway reaching across an empty space to a smiling Patrice Donnelly under the suggestive legend. "With a competitor...how close can you get?" Maybe the film's distributors though lesbianism would sell better than athletics. Form the second ad's rapid disappearance we can inter that it didn...