Word: abe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody has ever considered Abe Lincoln a stuffed shirt, but just to make sure, recent biographers have stripped him down to his gaunt ribs. With The Hidden Lincoln, published last year on Lincoln's birthday, Emanuel Hertz identified himself as one of Lincoln's most active denuders. This year, again as a birthday present, Hertz has the grace to throw around Lincoln's bony shoulders a vast mantle of myth. It fits no better than Lincoln's baggy suits did, but as Editor Hertz knows, no editorial tailor will ever be able to fit formal clothes...
...than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest Abe...
...Abe Lincoln in Illinois. A fervent tribute to Lincoln, at its best when the words are Lincoln's own (TIME...
...Worlds) had been panned, Elmer Rice, calling first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," savagely forswore the theatre. But when The Playwrights' Company was formed last spring, Rice quietly chucked away his vow. Last week his American Landscape followed the Company's Knickerbocker Holiday and Abe Lincoln in Illinois to Broadway...
...Like Abe Lincoln in Illinois, American Landscape sounds the trumpet for free dom, tolerance and democracy. A timely and impressive theme, Mr. Rice has hag ridden it into a loud and loquacious ser mon. In its few good moments the play rises to ringing eloquence, but far oftener sinks to stagy gestures and sentimental shenanigans...