Word: legendizing
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...South stands for Robert E. Lee, a legend, a Southern hero and ultimate hero of the War Between the States, and a man who is admired, esteemed and revered. He is the embodiment of the South which stands for independence, states' rights, the right to rebel against wrong, an accomodating nature and tenacity, to name...
...ready, son. You're playing your father today," tennis legend Ilie Nastase called across the net before taking on former Harvard top seed Arkie Engel...
...Mandela, the burden of his legend seems almost more than any one man can bear. A study in dignity, intelligence and unflappability, he is showing amazing grace as he moves from his symbolic role as a political prisoner to the more demanding one of a political activist. His challenge will become still tougher if he begins negotiating some kind of political compromise. "No individual leader is able to take on these enormous tasks on his own," he reminded listeners last week. The question is whether Mandela's children and grandchildren will be as magnanimous -- and patient -- as the elder statesman...
Molto allegro is the desired pace for most performances, to cut down on fan fidgeting and player awkwardness, especially if the game is televised. In 1977 Fenway Park organist John Kiley became an anthem legend for coming in at a snappy 51 seconds. That is still not fast enough for ABC Sports. "The goal," says former producer Dorrance Smith, "is to cut away to a commercial." Luckily, he was not broadcasting the 1978 World Series in Yankee Stadium when Pearl Bailey dragged out the song to a record-breaking...
...bold move that David Park, a young instructor at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco, made one day in 1949. He gathered up all his abstract-expressionist canvases and, in an act that has gone down in local legend, drove to the Berkeley city dump and destroyed them. Park had become disenchanted with abstract expressionism's strict, non-representational regimen. He wanted, as he put it, to stop producing "paintings" and start painting "pictures." Two years later, he submitted a clearly representational work, Kids on Bikes, 1950, to a competitive show -- and won, to the astonishment...