Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ladies coughed politely when Dr. Tansill called Abraham Lincoln a "do-nothing" soldier, "invincible in peace and invisible in war." They looked alarmed when he began to contrast the Davis and Lincoln military careers. Suddenly his audience realized that the professor was leading them on a historical Pickett's charge...
...Sphinx of Springfield," cried Dr. Tansill, wagging a lean finger in the general direction of a bust of Lincoln (which stared sadly south), played "fast and loose" with Southerners "in order to trick them into a bombardment of that famous Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
...judge didn't know it, but the infant whose name was in question, yowling upstairs, was to be a famous sculptor. The clenched red hands of young Daniel Chester French would one day mold Concord's familiar Minute Man, John Harvard at Cambridge, and the seated Lincoln for Washington's Lincoln Memorial. He would live 81 fortunate years, and his wife and daughter would each write a book about him. Daniel's daughter, Margaret French Cresson, herself a sculptor, has written the better book, Journey into Fame (Harvard University Press; $4.50), published this week...
...secure as the statue itself. He made as much as $80,000 in a year. His sculpture did not have the clean perfection of the Greeks or the fire of Rodin, but it was recognizably romantic and faintly classical-a popular blend. Daniel achieved his greatest sculptural triumph-the Lincoln Memorial statue...
...psychotics who are, or ought to be, in institutions, a large proportion are curable. Recovery from depression is "possible and usual." Two famous sufferers, cited by Dr. Bond, who recovered: Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln...