Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George McGovern and his legions have deeply moved this 30-year-old, city-bred (Los Angeles), Irish Catholic female. The traditional Democrat. Yes, they have moved me completely and passionately to the party of Abraham Lincoln, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon...
...What effect does Eagleton's medical history have on his fitness for the vice presidency-which means, potentially, for the enormous burdens of the presidency? Past U.S. Presidents have had their emotional problems: John Adams had several nervous breakdowns, Franklin Pierce was an alcoholic, Abraham Lincoln had recurring periods of near-suicidal depression, Rutherford Hayes as a young man wandered about the streets of Sandusky, Ohio, weeping uncontrollably. Lesser officials have also been afflicted. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal committed suicide in 1949 while hospitalized for involutional melancholia. Alabama Governor George Wallace, who announced last week that he would...
...Rolaids. A Beech-Nut gum ad stresses that each pack contains eight sticks and displays a Wrigley pack, which has only seven. A plug for a Volkswagen Type III sedan insists that it has just as much in its compact as Maverick, Toyota or Datsun. The idea is infectious. Lincoln Continental commercials refer only to "that other American luxury car," but the ad agency, Kenyon & Eckhardt, is studying the possibility of naming Cadillac. Says K. & E. Chairman Stanley Tannenbaum of name naming: "If that's consumerism, I love...
...Westerners, Middle Westerners and Southerners who want to meet the Yankee and see New England, can do so by straying no further than the De-Cordova Museum, off Route 2 in Lincoln. In a matter of rooms, you can see the land and seascapes of the Northeast in all their seasonal array as well as the wrinkled and pimpled, more often than not smiling, faces of the people who live there...
...calls "this miserable country." As an expatriate, she sees the U.S. in sharp focus, remarking on incongruities that a resident takes for granted. Thus she recognized-and skillfully skewered -American bungling in Viet Nam (1967), though her later Hanoi (1968), likewise based on firsthand reporting, suffered from a Lincoln Steffens I-have-seen-the-future-and-it-works naiveté. In Medina, her third short book of war reportage, she turns an account of the acquittal of Lieut. William Calley's immediate superior into a disquieting meditation on the meaning...