Word: abely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first play, Tennessee, by Romulus Linney, a frontier family arrives at its recently-acquired shack ("We're here, ain't we?") and the father, a weatherbeaten, Abe Lincolnish icon of American spirit, makes long, slow speeches about how he "growed up crawlin' on a dirt floor like a goddamned ant" and now that the war's over he's gonna harness these here fifty acres; his wife stands awkwardly on the porch and pulls at her shawl (for the entire play, in fact); and his well-rouged son chimes in about cutting the brush over yonder. Then a badly made...
...since he had pushed Goldberg's appointment (by Kennedy) to the court, he had a right to take him off. Using his powerful personality, L.B.J. persuaded Goldberg to take the lesser job. Johnson was still working the old game when he named his long-time crony and lawyer, Abe Fortas, to succeed Warren as Chief Justice. That one fell through because of Fortas' conflict-of-interest problems and Johnson's unhappy departure from the White House...
President Bok? "On the issue of the location of the JFK Library, Bok folded as he does on almost everything. He's the Abe Ribicoff of college presidents. Whichever way the wind blows, "Goodwin charges. And he concludes: "Outside of the sciences and the professional schools, there has been some serious deterioration. But it's rich and well-built. Probably be around forever...
...funding Medicaid abortions on the state government. I clearly intend to see that we do that." Republican State Senator James Donovan, the Hyde of Albany, plans to offer an amendment that would assure Carey will not have his way. Says Donovan of his antiabortion mission: "I think of Abe Lincoln, who freed the slaves when they were treated as little different from unborn children today-as non-persons." The legislature will probably appropriate the money. Carey, however, also told the NOW lobbyists he endorses the Supreme Court decision to allow a state to require notification of the parents of dependent...
...Tell Abe Rosenthal.' I thought that a responsible editor of a responsible paper would want to correct the record." Rosenthal readily authorized the corrective story. Korry, in turn, says that he then provided the information for the Kissinger project that Hersh wanted. Says Korry: "I've always believed in justice...