Word: legendizing
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According to legend, the 1974 review began when then-President Derek C. Bok asked Rosovsky what is meant by the president’s welcoming of the graduating class into the “company of educated men” every Commencement...
Graham, 57, is the son of the late publishing legend Katharine Graham. Sulzberger, 51, is scion of the family that has run the Times since 1896. The two minded their manners at last week's dinner, offering jokes "about that IHT stuff," as Sulzberger put it, and chatting amiably and at length even when the evening's agenda didn't require that they be together. But bitterness clearly lingers after the several months of what a Post insider called "highly painful negotiations...
...JAPAN'S OPHELIA If you are curious about the legend of Okichi, this site, put out by Japan-based academic Kathleen Kitao, discerns fact from fiction and gives a web view of all the spots dedicated to Shimoda's most famous daughter, including where to find her grave...
...Crimson’s fateful meeting with Dartmouth a year ago, Harvard found itself reeling 21-0 at halftime, its hopes for an Ivy League title rapidly slipping away. Then the Morris show began. In what has become modern legend, Morris both caught and threw for a touchdown and made a 40-yard, TD-generating reception within a three-and-a-half-minute third quarter span. The Crimson went on to win the game...
...world to produce some good work, before sticking ’em up on a podium in front of hundreds of students. Then all are surprised when mumbling incoherency stutters past their whiskers. This continues for 20 years or so, until the rat’s academic legend overshadows his lecturing—who would ever question the teaching ability of an almighty University professor? Certainly not the department head who is 20 years his junior, nor his TFs, who roll their eyes and spend sections deciphering lectures...