Word: lincoln
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After graduating from Juillard, Ze'eva performed with Sokolow's company, the American Dance Theater at Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and as a guest artist with Pearl Lang and company. She formed her own solo dance program in 1971 and has since toured throughout the U.S. and in Geneva, London, Berne, Bonn, and Jerusalem...
Nobody has yet explained satisfactorily why Abraham Lincoln innately understood that the most important task before him was to preserve the Union, not to free the slaves; that meeting the first challenge would allow him better to combat the second. "The essence of [Franklin] Roosevelt's presidency," wrote Historian Clinton Rossiter, "was his airy eagerness to meet the age head on." Roosevelt understood the reserve of U.S. courage in the time of Depression better than the people themselves did. He calculated the productive potential of America before World War II more accurately than did the leaders of industry. Franklin...
...B.S.O. This year there are 264 requests for money from the same fund, but Governor Edward King, a Proposition 13 adherent, wants to trim the council's already inadequate budget by 15%. The private sector is unlikely to fill the gap. Whereas New York City's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall get essential support from the rich corporations headquartered in the city, Boston has only a few home-town companies of any size, notably Gillette, Raytheon and Polaroid...
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...violent the great man really was, half of England denounced Froude as a scoundrel and a traitor. Biographies were popular in both Britain and America throughout the 19th century, but few modern readers could or would endure them. Speeches and letters were quoted at enormous length-a life of Lincoln ran to ten volumes. Authors were expected to remain discreetly behind the curtains, without a voice or point of view...