Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demands of his new stature, McGovern did have time for some unwinding. He slept long and late, walked occasionally in the forests of tall South Dakota spruce. McGovern even made a pilgrimage to Mount Rushmore, where he consented to pose in profile against the granite likenesses of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt. McGovern thought the idea might smack of hubris, but an aide told him: "Politics is theater...
...dismayed board of directors gathered to consider the problem of a new manager. From Italy, Bing cabled an offer to help, but the Met picked the man whom Gentele himself had chosen as his assistant: Schuyler G. Chapin, 49, a former vice president in charge of programming for Lincoln Center. Chapin has experience in concert management, training as a musician, and was formerly executive producer of Leonard Bernstein's television company, but he has no background in opera management. Said he: "I feel not unlike Harry Truman must have felt in 1945." President Moore described Chapin's contract...
...Music-Dance Critic William Bender and Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov, covering the weeklong Stravinsky Festival at New York's Lincoln Center was an experience of total immersion. The event, a Woodstock in black tie for devotees of ballet, proved almost as demanding on audiences as performers. In all, 31 ballets were presented in seven days, and 21 of them were new works. While Bender kept his critic's eye on the stage, Rosemarie interviewed Choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins for an article accompanying the review. "The festival went at an allegro pace," said Bender when...
...poem by Lincoln Kirstein...
...refused to support improved sanitation in the northwest district and deposited dead rats on the step of Chicago city hall to dramatize the infestation of the Woodlawn neighborhood. One Eddie Campos, a plasterer from Whittier, Calif. (Nixon's home town), bought him self a $10,300 Lincoln. The ignition fell out, the air conditioning failed, the front end waggled. One day Campos took the Lincoln to the front lawn of the Ford plant in Los Angeles, set it to the torch and planted a potted lemon tree atop the charred wreck. Tenants at 210 Central Park South, about...