As I noted in a column on Thursday, the idea that Trump is some sort of master negotiator, or ace business tactician, is a fallacy propagated by himself.
New studies of Burgess might also shed light on some of the many myths that he, if not actually created, then certainly propagated about himself.
The images are amusingly staged, the kind that Vladimir Putin would himself propagate, and include the Chechen leader with wildlife, at the dentist and climbing a blossom tree.
Twinned opening scenes — the first involving a giant, alabaster-skinned biped sacrificing himself to propagate life on Earth, and the second, thousands of years later, devoted to scientists' finding traces of his presences — impart a palpable sense of awe.
Certainly, this is a view that he himself wants to propagate.
The rumor (almost certainly propagated by Saperstein himself in an attempt to scare off NBA teams) was that the Globetrotters were prepared to offer Russell $50,000.
Word of mouth, propagated by Dudek himself, was that he "got the gig" and had become the Allman Brothers' new co-lead guitarist.
The theory has even climbed the wonderful meta peak only certain conspiracies are able to ascend, with some theorists musing about the idea Jones may have started and propagated the theory himself to discredit accurate conspiracies about him.
Donovan Bailey, the leading 100m runner during the mid-1990s, and Maurice Greene, who assumed the mantle, both bridled at the suggestion of commentators - one that Johnson himself was not afraid to propagate - that he was the fastest man alive.
The son of a Congregational minister, he was himself a minister from 1838 until 1864, when he began to devote himself to propagating his new method of musical nomenclature.
