Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer and notices the long scar, left by a fascist bullet, which runs down his neck. An activist in the American Communist Party for 30 years, Nelson is, above all else, a Marxist and a fighter. These two characteristics made it almost inevitable that Nelson would join the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and go to Spain...
...William Holden plays a deposed news executive who gambles on her capacity for love--and loses. Holden is a little dull, but Dunaway and Peter Finch, the crazed commentator, manage to carry off the film's roller coaster ride of high-level network looniness." Well, as veterans of the Lincoln brigade might have said in response to Franco sympathizers during the Spanish Civil war: go to the front yourself and see what line you come away with...
...modern President can. "I've reserved for myself only the things I have to do," Jimmy Carter says. But everything still revolves around the President. He sits in his study-with pastorals by American impressionist painters on his wall, his bookshelves laden with biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy-and seems very much alone. But all things converge upon him, and there is a constant flow of people and ideas. Richard Nixon's lieutenants tried to protect Nixon from such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost to welcome them. The White House operation...
...Thomas Jefferson dressed simply and did walk to and from his Inaugural, but he adopted classic architecture and Louis XVI furniture. He eschewed the pomp of Kings, but he enjoyed regal dinners, which Carter does not. History suggests no correlation between the adoption of presidential tradition and success. Abraham Lincoln wore a stovepipe hat and saved the nation. Herbert Hoover often wore his tux to dinner-and nearly lost the country...
...jury did not find that the men always acted in concert, however. Only Easterling and Soares were convicted of assault on Thomas J. Lincoln '77, another football player who was stabbed during the brawl, which will add eight to ten years to their life sentences...