Word: legendizing
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Clinton will, of course, be unequal to the task. The assassination left Kennedy frozen in time, immune to criticism and free of the slow decline that awaits any politician in retirement. He lives on in a heroic legend that no later stories of his personal shortcomings can dent; it is an outline that even John F. Kennedy himself, were he alive today, could not fill...
...longer matters whether the Kennedy myth is true. We don't really care what kind of president he was; we don't want to know the secrets of his personal life. The legend has become our own, an ideal toward which the present can only aspire. Thirty years after his death, JFK haunts us all--the last apparition of a past that was never ours...
Sports fans, sportswriters and athletes are all involved in the fabrication of myth. Past contests, battles ingrained in athletic lore, become legendary over time. Usually, it takes many years and many remembered and enhanced details for one particular event to be spun into the fabric of sports legend...
...late coaching legend John Yovicsin, Harvard also put together an unexpectedly undefeated season, boasting one of the nation's best defenses, dubbed by journalists the "Boston Stranglers...
...legend's thread has not run out. It willnever run out. The contest has generated its owntime capsule. The players have become mythicalheroes, the plays themselves have becomesupernatural actions, never to be repeated ormatched...