The notion of the Eisenhower years as a time of dullness and conformity - a dubious revisionist legacy of the 1960's in any case - has been replaced by a series of images and stories that emphasize both ferment and stability.

This is the dubious legacy of the title, but it is not the only legacy in Mrs. Wesley's sophisticated and unexpectedly sobering novel.

Pippen's sneakers are custom made for him, but it is curious that it is, in effect, a Michael Jordan shoe, and Pippen has the dubious legacy of having to fill those shoes.

In Brockton, trial digs uncovered just such a dubious legacy from the city's former shoe manufacturing industry.

The critical comments by Mr. Wills and others on the shortcomings of the Reagan Administration, such as its "dubious legacy of deficits," are fair enough.

The spoken announcements offer an unquestionable improvement over the subway system's dubious aural legacy.

The kisaeng tradition perpetuated one of the more dubious legacies of the Joseon past: an extreme double standard concerning the sexual behavior of married men and women that still persists.

After this come interiors and figures that are impressionistic in brushwork though not in color - the smudgy Euston Road style that was Walter Sickert's dubious legacy to British painting.

That will be their dubious legacy, not only for those Americans who will later chronicle and expand on these events, but also for those of us who have lived through them.

Cheap corn, the dubious legacy of Earl Butz, is truly the building block of the "fast-food nation."