Word: legendizing
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...engulfed the building, the city was lighted by the eerie spectacle, the grand stairway acting like a flume to build the heat. Frightened residents watched into the night until the blaze was extinguished by a violent rainstorm. Next morning the White House was a blackened sandstone shell--but a legend was born...
...sense of Lincoln still permeates the mansion. There are more paintings and busts of Lincoln than of any other President and more bits of legend about his life in the White House, including the lone ghost preserved in myth. No President has yet claimed to have seen it, but consummate showman Ronald Reagan said two of his guests sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom saw the misty figure on two separate nights. On being discovered, the ghost turned and walked into the darkness...
Last year 31-year-old Staten Island, N.Y., native Robert Diggs made what he called a pilgrimage to China. After being forced from Tiananmen Square for displaying a self-promotional billboard, Diggs took to the hills. To be specific, he ascended Wu-Tang Mountain, where according to legend - his - he was received by kung fu masters at several monasteries. As Diggs exited a Shaolin temple, he says, a crowd of several hundred children awaited him. He proceeded to communicate the only way he knew: by rapping. "They didn't speak English, but I blew their minds, and they all came...
...Harvard Crimson: Boston was recently visited by Sonny Rollins, whom many people consider to be jazz music's last living legend. Who are some of the great leading jazz musicians of the next generation, in your opinion...
Former Coach Bill Carmody, longtime understudy of Princeton legend Pete Carill, bolted to Northwestern and its alluring Big Ten spotlight. That led to the hiring of former Princeton star Thompson, who graduated...