Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...periodical division includes not only the Review itself and its four planned offspring, but also the theatrical programs distributed at New York's Lincoln Center and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center. Charney and Veronis have plans for a Saturday Review book series (first subject: culture, featuring volumes on ballet, opera, etc.) and Saturday Review Special Projects, offering subscribers book and record packages, sculpture, lithographs and, as the supersalesmen say, other "items of high quality offering a particularly good value...
...measured against the events, L.B.J.'s memoirs* of those years, published this week, sometimes seem oddly smooth and windowless, like the travertine walls of the L.B.J. Library built to house his papers in Austin, Texas. The man who was surely the best raconteur in the White House since Lincoln has digested all of that drama -an Administration that began with an assassination and ended with something like an abdication-into more than 600 pages of what is too often dignified rationale (see box, next page...
...jockey for state votes by offering ambassadorships, Cabinet posts or even money to rivals, then ballot to select a candidate. Next comes the election and finally, for advanced players, there are a whole new set of rules that allow them to toy with hypothetical scenarios that can pit Abraham Lincoln, for instance, against George Wallace. Another one: what if Nixon were to decline renomination and the Republicans, with a dark-horse candidate, had to enter the campaign against a Democratic party united behind Teddy Kennedy...
Despite his nebulous and often contradictory position on foreign policy, in his hard hitting domestic program, he successfully reconciles McGovern the idealist and McGovern, the pragmatist. Campaigning under the lincoln green banner of Robin Hood, he proposes a tax system to "take from the rich and give to the poor" and does everything but call President Nixon the Sheriff of Nottingham. His program includes excess profits tax, an end to oil depletion allowances, a realistic minimum income tax, an increased tax on millionaires, and better consumer protection...
...public schools. This discovery awakened in Hakim and his brother cons a desire to obtain other knowledge and skills they had missed. Prevented from obtaining this knowledge in the prison schools because of the tracking system. "We began to conduct our own classes. We had brothers there from Lincoln University and so forth. So the cats began to teach math classes and science classes. We began to teach these things on the yard. One of the things the prison system does not want is a thinking convict, they want a reacting convict, and we were beginning to teach cats...