Word: legends
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Malcolm's obsession with his African roots-the "X" stands for his unknown African name-that drives Haley forward on his search for his forefather Kunta Kinte. What happened when Haley finally went to Africa has already passed into American legend, but the reenactment of the scene at the end of Roots 11 still has strong impact. When a tribal oral historian, a griot, confirms the Haley family account of Kinte's capture by white 18th century slave traders, Alex's joy is overwhelming. "You old African! I found you! I found you! I found...
Andrew L. Creighton '81, recounts the legend surrounding the commotion. The University police, in an attempt to deny the SDS access to Harvard, locked all the gates to the Yard. However, a custodian of Phillips Brooks House had ferreted away a key to the gate some years before. Using the key, 150 SDS members snuck into the building, and the convention proceeded without further incident...
Cocaine, which reaches the U.S. through the Colombian network, often does not originate in Colombia. Most coca shrubs grow in neighboring Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador, where the Indians of the Andes have chewed the leaves for more than 2,500 years. According to legend, the founder of the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac, brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from...
...most of all, it was a name made for a Southern football legend, the right name for the coach of Alabama. During the years before the South became the Sunbelt, football was its way of showing off to the nation, a source of deep, almost xenophobic pride. The conversation on the church steps Sunday mornings was an autumn ritual across the South. The Georgia people would crow, while Tennessee fans sulked and the interlopers from Florida had to listen to the abuse of the Auburn backers. The only time everyone agreed on anything was when one of "our teams" beat...
Presley, the first certifiable rock superstar, built his legend with a fair assist from Leiber and Stoller, who provided him with not only Hound Dog but such other cornerstones as Jailhouse Rock, King Creole, Loving You and Treat Me Nice. And that wasn't even their best...