Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Copland: A Lincoln Portrait (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Melvyn Douglas narrating; Victor, 3 sides). Koussevitzky speeds up Copland's rhythms and Melvyn Douglas reads his lines like a carnival barker. Not so effective as Conductor Artur Rodzinski's 1946 version with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, which has Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer's dignified narration. Performance: fair...
Having Wonderful Time. With surprising zest, the Democrats took over the minority role, which from Lincoln up to F.D.R. was historically theirs. They took up the sniping which the G.O.P. had carried on for 14 Democratic years...
...Manhattan, a new nonprofit company called Ballet Society set out to de-emphasize ballet and take the high pressure out of it. It had the well-heeled help of Lincoln Kirstein, who in the past 14 years has organized or helped support five attempts to "de-Russianize" U.S. ballet. And as its artistic director Ballet Society had Russian-born George Balanchine, the best choreographer...
...party had picked another candidate, he ran for the Senate of the U.S. His wife lent him her hand. Breathlessly, she rushed around the state, bouncing into the wrong meetings, but confronting every situation with rumpled and exuberant aplomb. "Once they told me I could only talk on Abraham Lincoln. But when I got through you couldn't tell where Lincoln left off and Bob Taft began." Bob was elected and went to Washington...
...Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke the word peace in several tongues: paix (French), paz (Spanish), pace (Italian), bćke (Hungarian), vrede (Dutch), baris (Turkish), mir (Czech) and ping (Chinese). † A misquotation from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Lincoln, less conscious than Byrnes of "power," said: "With firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right...