Word: abrahamisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harris: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (Nell Tangeman and chamber group; M-G-M). A deeply pulsing lament of heavy piano chords (played by Composer Harris' wife Johana) and elegiac countermelodies played by the violin and cello. Mezzo-Soprano Tangeman sings the Vachel Lindsay words with power and feeling to produce some fine music...
...NAACP according to Mr. Talmadge. This piece of revelation is gained by observing that "nature has produced white birds, black birds, blue birds, and red birds, and they do not roost on the same limb or use the same nest." With the Constitution and God on his side, and Abraham Lincoln's "true views" thrown in for good measure, Talmadge is pretty well equipped to defend his sovereign state of Georgia against innovations...
...fiction achieves a higher level. Paul Goodman's play Abraham and Isaac, while it does not deepen or alter our basic understanding of the biblical situation in the fashion of Kierkergaard's Fear and Trembling, does retell the story with poetic insight into the man of faith's process of willing. Also colorful bits of Hebraic philosophy enrich our understanding of the chracters and their outlook on life...
Medic (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). How the doctors tried to save Abraham Lincoln after he was shot...
...Urgent Problem. During the Civil War, the estate was occupied by Union troops; after the Battle of Bull Run, McDowell's forces retreated to Arlington, where Abraham Lincoln visited the troops. As the war progressed, Washington was turned into an armed camp, its hospitals filled with wounded and dying soldiers. The available cemeteries filled up rapidly, and burial became an urgent problem that weighed heavily upon Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, the Army's Quartermaster General, who was responsible for the military dead. One day, while he was walking in Washington, Meigs encountered Lincoln. The President noted that...