Word: legendizing
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Thayer is embroiled in a stupid but fun rivalrywith nearly Holworthy Hall. Legend has itthat the dispute originated when Holworthy wasbuilt on Thayer's polo ground, or vice-versa,depending on who you ask. The rivalry usuallysurfaces in "Holworthy Sucks.!"-"Thayer Swallows!"shouting bouts. At times, the conflict escalatesto more serious warfare involving water fights andhostages...
...senior member of the corporation is Charles P. Slichter '45, a University of Illinois professor. Legend has it that until recently, Slichter had not spoken to an undergraduate since his own day at Harvard...
...romance of the plow will endure in memory. It is too great a legend to lose. Besides, some land will still need plowing. Down Highway 70 below Bowling Green near tiny Frenchtown, Bill Goettemoeller's family feeds 1,000 head of cattle, and it is necessary to plow in the manure and straw from the feedlots, though even the Goettemoellers plow only about half as much land as they used...
...night in bars, but they don't pay you for that. Where Jackie Gleason really was the Great One, as he called himself with no undue bashfulness, was as the bus driver Ralph Kramden in his long- rerunning TV show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through the maze of lies the funnyman wove around his tangled life, including one woozy story about two newlyweds and Gleason, all drunk, and a goat that may have been sober...
...dramatic transformation from obscure computer salesman into proprietor of one of the nation's largest fortunes. Already some cracks are beginning to appear in the facade. Perot, like some of the mainstream politicians he derides, does have a credibility problem. He once remarked that "I'm not a living legend. I'm just a myth." Which sounds disarming -- except that some parts of the myth appear to be self-created. Even some admirers concede that Perot is an inveterate embroiderer of good stories. A less sympathetic way of putting it is that for a supposedly down-to-earth, homespun character...