Word: legendizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Going to Eastern Sprints, I was nervous,” Kitovitz admits. “But you’ve got to accept that Harry Parker is a legend, and if he has faith in me, I have faith...
...think Core reform) and a rigid timetable. Paradoxically, in order to preserve the Republic’s freedom, the republican principles of plural collegiality and responsibility needed to be abandoned. By most accounts, the system succeeded in saving the Republic from external invaders and internal rebellions alike. According to legend, Cincinnatus was plowing his field when called to dictatorship, an activity that he blissfully resumed after having saved the Republic. In view of our current bureaucratic standstill, I venture that this is the path Harvard should take. Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles shrewdly provided a precedent when...
...When the legend becomes fact," a cynical newspaperman says in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, "print the legend." Rosenthal's picture was the war's definitive photo op. It didn't matter that the flag raising was about the least dangerous activity any of the men had engaged in on Iwo Jima, or that none of them had raised the first flag. No visages are visible in the photo--an anonymity that added to the shot's sense of selfless, faceless heroism, as well as giving the War Department's publicists leeway to fiddle with...
...imitation Iwo Jima; at a banquet they are served an iced dessert in the shape of the photo. Uncomfortable with praise they never asked for, guilt ridden that they are home and their buddies fighting and dying abroad, they know that the Iwo Jima image is simply an inspirational legend that shrouds the dreadful truth: of young bodies from two nations, lifeless, mangled beyond recognition...
...ROYAL BOSOM Porcelain maker Bernardaud is reproducing pieces from the Queen's service, including the Jatte-tton bowl, which, legend has it, was molded on her breast...