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Word: lincoln (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Nazi Party changed its name after the 1967 assassination of Founder George Lincoln Rockwell, but not its loathsome ideology. Now known as the National Socialist White People's Party, the group has a songbook that includes the following ditty (to the tune of Jingle Bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Neo-Nazi Groups: Artifacts of Hate | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Chekhov's plays extraordinary things usually happen in the most ordinary ways. Not so in the revival of The Cherry Orchard at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center. Director Andrei Serban emblazons even quite ordinary moments with extraordinary stage effects. Symbolic figures stalk in and out, backgrounds loom hugely, movement flows into patterns and tableaux. The results are bold, sometimes beautiful, but only partly successful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Magnified Gestures | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...Million B.C." bosoms paled in comparison. She was The Queen Bee, the dream of very press photographer. And now here I was rising above the multitude of lenses to claim my prize. Almost instantaneously I straddled the fenders and lay prostrate on the firm hood of that convertible '58 Lincoln Continental. The picture was mine...

Author: By David Melody, | Title: Notes From A Photographer's Journal | 2/25/1977 | See Source »

...yearly diversion, like when Tom Rush gives his annual concert in Hum 9b. The United States Amateur Squash Championships, both individual and team, were held in Chicago this weekend, and while the Crimson racquetmen didn't make any headlines, what's more patriotic than spending Washington's birthday in Lincoln country...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Racquetmen Blown Away in Windy City | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

...seems a shame that Inauguration Day isn't a national holiday. I would like to have my children home from school so that they could watch the events on television. Instead, they are home on Columbus Day, Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, when the only thing they see is the sales in the department stores. Congress should rethink our entire national holiday setup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1977 | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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