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...wars get the rhetoric they deserve? Maybe so. The Civil War yielded the Gettysburg Address and the Cold War Churchill?s Iron Curtain address. Sometimes, though, the rhetoric sails beyond the cause. Shakespeare?s Agincourt speech - "We happy few, we band of brothers" - celebrated what was, after all, a stupid battle. This is a just war - the very definition of a just war, at least in its conception. So far, its rhetoric is right...
...Colonel Joshua Chamberlain leads his Union troops in a desperate bayonet counterattack, crushing the Rebel attack on Little Round Top. This is one of the many key moments during the fighting at Gettysburg leading to the Northern victory...
...aside from these facts, the Lincoln Brigade did not fight for a communist revolution. It combated fascism in Spain to preserve a legally elected democracy "of the people, by the people, for the people," as its namesake had proclaimed at Gettysburg. Many of them were blacks weary of lynchings in the South and day-to-day mistreatment by whites. Others were Jews who feared for their fellow Jews in Hitler's Germany. They fought fascism in Spain to strike back at the American fascist elements of racism, police violence against organized workers and inequality of opportunity for Jews, blacks...
...expression to a group experience. Movies are always based on that. There's an irreverence for material, but a reverence for quick wits and thinking. There is the whole question of the sophisticated country boy. Abraham Lincoln was an example. This guy off of a farm somewhere delivered the Gettysburg Address. These archetypes exist in our way of looking at things. Jazz is about a process of putting things together. There's no right or wrong in it, it's just a way of doing things. It's been an inseparable part of America in the 20th century...
...march through a Catholic district was barred 16. Creaking orbiter 17. "Live Free or Die," e.g. 18. Etch-A-Sketch control 20. You can count on them 23. Two New Yorkers were arrested for hacking into its computers 26. Mexicali Mrs. 29. C.W. Post is part of it 30. Gettysburg Address ender 31. Shakespeare prince 32. Team that baseball owners would like to disband 34. Kind of process 35. Opportunity for a hit 37. Magnum and others 38. Deep Blue's maker 39. Reddish-brown gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura...