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...uncouth and awkward man, a usurper of power. But Republicans saw him as a great asset and tried to build a myth that would last--and do the party lasting good. In May 1865, the Republican editor Josiah Holland interviewed the President's law partner William Herndon at length. When the subject of religion came up, Herndon told him, "The less said, the better," doubting that the pious Holland would want the details of Lincoln's unorthodox history. How, for example, Lincoln had doubted the divinity of Christ and the infallibility of the Bible. "Oh, never mind," Holland said...
...model or new. She got interested in the topic when one of her students, involved with a married man, asked about the research on the subject. "There wasn't any, so I did a study myself," says Richardson, who talked to 700 Other Women, 55 of them at some length...
...financial angel of the American Ballet Theatre, to which she helped transplant the traditions of the great European troupes and which she helped forge into one of the world's best companies; in New York City. With Co-Director Oliver Smith, she maintained an eclectic repertory that mixed full-length classics with the works of innovative choreographers, including Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille and Antony Tudor. Chase nurtured great dancers like the Americans Nora Kaye and Cynthia Gregory, as well as the Soviet defectors Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
Reagan and Gorbachev talk at length on missile reductions, but the summit ends in a stalemate over the Strategic Defense Initiative. Icelanders greet invading summiteers with souvenirs, a swimsuit competition and a pony show. The Soviets take the lead in public relations. At an ancient peacemaking site, Roger Rosenblatt ponders the meaning of the talks. See NATION...
Raisa Gorbachev fit into Icelandic plans perfectly. For two days the genteel Raisa was an enthusiastic booster of Icelandic ways and wares. Dressed in a three-quarter-length silver-fox coat and black suede boots with a matching handbag, she appeared at a popular public swimming pool fed by sulfurous waters from Iceland's famed geothermal springs. The swimmers, who apparently had not been informed of the visit, paddled through the steamy mist in rubber caps and goggles to greet the Soviet First Lady. When Raisa applauded them, they clapped in return like performing seals. She then leaned over...