Word: keckley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kirstein has Elizabeth Keckley (Nancy McDaniel), the local White House witch accuse Lincoln of "playing with words." And Old Abe's bastard Negro son-valet interrupts Lincoln's speeches for definitions. Lincoln's two secretaries who will write histories talk about history. Characters repeat words for the sake of Meaning. "Till the day I die," says Abe. "The day you die?" say they. "The very day'" says Abe. O ominous, O morbid...
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