Word: legend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Folk feet: The Salmon People, a performance of imaginative puppetry based on a Potlatch legend of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest, is offered at the Suffolk University Auditorium, Saturday at 2 and 8 and Sunday...
...Rashomon, the Japanese legend made into a movie, airline executives have widely differing views about the same phenomenon: in this case the spreading cut-rate fares on U.S. and transatlantic flights. What is beyond dispute is that the often bewildering variety of bargains offered by the eleven long-haul lines is stimulating a rush to pleasure travel. That in turn is helping to give the industry a much needed lift...
That sounds a lot like the Heathcliff that generations of readers have loved. Even those unfamiliar with Wuthering Heights can enjoy Heathcliff's crackling prose and rapid pacing. Inevitably, though, the information that Caine contrives detracts something from the legend that Brontë invented. Heathcliff was not meant to dally, however rudely, with Lon don ladies. Heathcliff also suggests that its hero is more pussycat than tiger. For all his violent talk ("I kicked him in the mouth, rattling his teeth nicely, like dice in a cup"), Heathcliff kills no one. His one violent act, cutting off the hand...
...Bill Edwards has little to say about any of this. Rather he is interested in preserving his stature as a curiosity and in circulating yet more parts of his legend. He proudly points to a story run in the Harvard Independent some time ago which whimsically described the excavation of Memorial Hall 2000 in the future. At one point, the archaeologists unwrap a mummy that immediately gets up and starts proctoring exams...
...exam period ends, but the legend lives on. Some day he may move on, as did his predecessor, John F. Adams, to an administrative position within the official University structure. Perhaps some day he will retire to publish his memoirs. But in the meantime, Harvard students will continue their love-hate relationship with Bill Edwards. They will continue to love the sense of continuity and curiosity he creates; they will continue to resent the authority he stands for when he finally barks out, "The exam is over." Bill Edwards has been at Harvard for the better part of a decade...