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...talks during his depression two decades earlier. "I believe that in this measure," Lincoln said, referring to the proclamation, "my fondest hopes will be realized." Nearly two centuries after his birth, we can say with certainty that the ambition that powered Lincoln from his earliest days--the desire to establish an admirable reputation on earth so that his story could be told after he died--has been realized far beyond his fondest hopes...
...second inauguration to his burial. Using an authoritative voice-over narrative style, Geary carefully plots out the chronology of Lincoln's final days. In a typically compact opening sequence, excerpts from Lincoln's famous, conciliatory address, "With malice toward none; with charity for all..." get intercut with scenes that establish its historical context and Lincoln's fatalistic attitude about his own safety. The book then shifts to its primary character, John Wilkes Booth. Reduced to a rather flat villain in the collective historical memory, here Booth comes alive as a handsome actor and ladies man whose insatiable ego, as much...
Perhaps most disturbing of all, the new test measured only bedrock inability to read, with no attempt to establish the number of U.S. adults who, although technically literate, cannot read well enough to function as successful citizens. Such a measure of functional illiteracy, say Barnes and other experts, would be even more disheartening. Indeed, a study published by the University of Texas in 1975 suggested that one in five Americans cannot read well enough to perform the simplest tasks. Of 15,000 tested, 20% could not write a check without an error so serious that a bank could not cash...
Though Homer exhibitions up to now have tended to treat his watercolors as ancillary to his oils, mere preparations, it is clear from this one that Homer did not think that way himself and that he did more than any other 19th century American artist to establish watercolor as an important medium in the U.S. In structure and intensity, his best watercolors yield nothing to his larger paintings. Homer had great powers of visual analysis; he could hardly look at a scene without breaking it down and resolving it as structure, and some of his paintings of the Adirondack woods...
...then suddenly the killing stops. He feels he has overdone it. He asks the pardon of his chief antagonist, and stability is restored. As it is in Hrafnkel's Saga, where, after the obligatory killings and counterkillings, the hero refuses to execute his archrival and chooses to re-establish the balance in the country...