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...choice may sometimes be perverse. Abraham Lincoln rather liked Dixie. Someone decided that poor Franklin Roosevelt loved Home on the Range, so he was condemned to sit through the tune scores of times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: They're Playing Ur-Song | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

...Abraham Zaleznik, currently Cahners Rabb Professor of Social Psychology of Management, was named the first Konosuka Matsushita Professor of Leadership. The chair's namesake is chairman of the Matsushita Electric Industrial Company, Ltd. of Japan, an international concern which sells electronic equipment under the Panasonic, Technical and Quasar brands in the United States...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A $1 Million Chair | 2/18/1983 | See Source »

...quote from Genesis implies that the Jews are the only descendants of Abraham. Abraham's eldest son was Ishmael, which makes the Arabs his descendants also. The kinship between the Jews and the Arabs, not the animosity, is what should be stressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1983 | 2/7/1983 | See Source »

...said the Lord to Abraham, as recorded in Genesis 17: 8, and the descendants of Abraham remembered. In 1948 the Jews of Palestine seized control of part of the ancient land of their forefathers and established the state of Israel. In 1967, as a result of the Six-Day War, Israel occupied those portions of the ancient regions of Judea and Samaria that lie in the West Bank of the Jordan River, territory that had been ruled by Jordan. Though the future status of the occupied area remained unresolved, the Israelis proceeded in the next 15 years to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Israel's Great Land Rush | 1/17/1983 | See Source »

There was talk of impeachment in Abraham Lincoln's third year, and one Senator told of the President's possessing "an unhuman sadness." Lincoln confided to a friend: "The tired part of me is inside and out of reach." But that was the year he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, gave the Gettysburg Address, and realized General Ulysses S. Grant should lead his army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Time to Make or Break | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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