Word: lincoln
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Less than seven years ago, Arthur Mitchell was performing with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, the first black principal dancer in an American company. His fame grew as he partnered all of Balanchine's great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
...knows whether or not Spiro was feeding her lines he remembered from his own Business School days. The two were spotted together early in the year at Lincoln's Inn parties and crashing restricted Law School Forum receptions, but later the pair reportedly split up and went out with other students...
Keynote speaker for this year's Model U.N. is Lincoln P. Bloomfield '41, professor of Political Science at MIT. Other speakers for the seminars are John Gibson, of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, Guido Goldman '59, lecturer on Government, Walter Jones, professor of Political Science at Northeastern University, and Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor...
...virtuoso of such other theatrical arts as playwrighting, songwriting, directing, dancing and acting; in Smithfield, R.I. Young Eddie, the 14th of 17 children, supplemented the family treasury with pennies earned doing a song-and-dance act in barroom doorways and in prizefight rings between bouts in Woonsocket and Lincoln, R.I. In 1919 he made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans and Margaret Webster. After his prizewinning production...
...fought for progressive ideals in nearly every battle, on nearly every front, for over two decades. Whether singing for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, for union organizers and strikers all through the United States, or for Rosenberg sympathizers in New York City, Robeson lent his voice, his heart, and his intellect to forces combating repression wherever and whenever he could...