Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balmy summer evening, the plaza at Manhattan's Lincoln Center is as cheery a spot as Venice's Piazza San Marco without the pigeons or quite the grandeur. People gaze, mesmerized, into splashing fountains or relax at a sidewalk café, sipping Campari or sucking fruit ice from paper cups. For a change of meter and mood, conventioneers might duck the cacophony of the Garden in exchange for the mellow sounds at Alice Tully Hall, where July is Mostly Mozart time. Unfortunately, with Spain's dazzling pianist Alicia de Laroccha currently in residence, it is also mostly...
...even less. Yet a few rate an earing and eying-among them, the Wretched Refuse, a conglomerate of nine fine instrumentalists who specialize in asphalt bluegrass. Sugar Blue, a black harmonica player who plies his tunes in Greenwich Village, may be the best itinerant musician in New York. Around Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, less prominent and more indigent fiddlers than those indoors make Brahms burst in midair, usually by tuning their violins up a tone to make the sound more brilliant...
...this is the little lady who made this big war," said Abraham Lincoln. The President was meeting the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time, more than a decade after the book's publication in 1852. It was not simply a patronizing remark. Harriet Beecher Stowe really was small: "I am a little bit of a woman," she described herself, "about as thin and dry as a pinch of snuff." If Uncle Tom's Cabin did not quite start a war, it ignited the minds of people North and South, both for and against...
...Democrats, having been out in the cold for eight years, are so confident that they are cautioning each other, as Lincoln once said, not to "cackle until the egg is laid." With Viet Nam over and factions muted by quieter times as well as party reforms, no serious ideological issues divide the Democrats. Now, as Mark Siegel, a Strauss aide, observes, "there's a desire-it's almost a lust-to come together and win. Most of us hold ourselves almost personally responsible for eight years of Nixon and Ford...
Married. Raul Julia, 36, star of Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Threepenny Opera; and Merel Poloway, 26, dancer in the long-running Broadway musical Pippin; he for the second time, she for the first; in a Hindu ceremony performed by Swami Muktananda Paramahansa; in the Catskill Mountains near South Fallsburg...