Word: lincoln
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...revival at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater is of Olympian stature, the finest work that has ever been done there. In voice and bearing, Philip Bosco's Creon is an image of power and arrogance until he receives his terrible rebuke. Martha Henry's Antigone is a female javelin seeking death and wielding it. The myth may say that Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men. Actually, he gave it to women like Antigone and her formidable sisters, Medea and Electra and Helen...
...fellow citizens one from the other and each from himself. The urban river, says Jones, "is the memory bank of all past bodily errors, assaulting the most carefully bathed, sprayed, spayed and pressed." To Jones' eye, despoliation, like nearly everything else in Drifting, can be delightfully ambiguous. The Lincoln Tunnel reminds him of an extended lavatory wall; there is fascination in the waverings of tin cans, tires and old shoes under a few inches of water...
...liberal," the fourth "liberal" and the last "post-liberal." Together they make up a story of education followed by de-education-and, in this respect, Confessions is very much within the established genre of modern American autobiography as set forth earlier in this century by Henry Adams and Lincoln Steffens. Yet, King's work seems considerably more honest than that of many of his predecessors...
...stimulate the thought to an active exertion is surely the especial task of the youth force of this venerable university. A government is almost always a dull institution, and its pride in pragmatism often blurs its vision of the human values and obligations. Yet tradition counts. The America of Lincoln and Franklin, of Emerson and Whitman may assert itself, and your great country's innate radiant faith in democracy and Human Rights may well flash against the slate-colored wisdom of low-flying polities. The declaration of independence of Bangla Desh is most likely to arouse the people whose inspiring...
...from Robert F. Kennedy, handwritten in January 1966: "Listening to my colleagues in Congress (including myself) on what to do and what not to do in Viet Nam must become somewhat discouraging at times. I thought it might give you some comfort to look again at another President, Abraham Lincoln, and at some of the identical problems and situations he faced that you are now meeting...