Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scotland." He smiled when a newsman told him that pollsters had found the U.S. overwhelmingly opposed to war. He said, "If in April of 1861 the people of the North had been polled, I believe they would have voted against war. But when war came, they rallied behind President Lincoln. Why? They had made up their minds on the fundamental issues of slavery and union: they wanted leadership...
...summer of 1941 was not indeed the U.S. of the months before the Civil War; President Roosevelt was not President Lincoln; the new war that the U.S. was entering was not the War between the States. But Willkie's parallel was striking...
...Janeiro's Teatro Municipal, an audience of 3,000 saw the first U.S. ballet troupe that ever invaded South America. Tall, truculent Lincoln Kirstein, reviving his barnstorming Ballet Caravan, had assembled a company of 52, 60 crates of scenery and costumes, a repertory of 14 ballets. On opening night, Rio saw Estacion Gasolinera (by Choregrapher Lew Christenson, Composer Virgil Thomson, Painter Paul Cadmus), which the U.S. knew as Filling Station...
Said the London Times of the new British project: "[Even among well-educated Britons] Washington is a half-mythical figure who couldn't tell a lie. Jefferson is almost wholly forgotten. Lincoln is remembered because he abolished slavery rather than because he saved the Union. ... In every sense a world in which American leadership is effective will be a new world. That is one of the many reasons why the study of American history, American institutions and above all American traditions is of prime importance to the rising generation in this country...
...style"); 2) a letter from New York University's English Department saying that Lyons' column is recommended reading in the Advanced Writing Class; 3) a statement by Carl Sandburg (via Saroyan): "Imagine how much richer American history would have been, had there been a Leonard Lyons in Lincoln's time"; 4) the assertion that Lyons has "500 newsbeats a year...