Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Lincoln Wright and the Sour Mash Boys might be in the position that J. Geils was in six or seven years ago when you could amble over to the Cambridge Common on a sunny afternoon and see a band that was going places--JLW is the closest thing to a Boston group that you always feel you might be seeing in intimate circumstances for the last time. But sometimes I think that because they're basically a beer, bar and good-time band, fit for small places and close rapport, they'll stay in that closed circle--in which...
...humble opinion, ever since he was appointed by F.D.R. in 1939 he has been guilty of irreparable damage to the entire country. Jack Wilson Lincoln...
What I like best are the book's biographies. Gems, every jack of them. Zircons, actually. George Washington in four pages. Lincoln in three. Even in the U.S., Burke 's retains its pukka airs. Calls Nixon "controversial." L.B.J.'s the chap who had "a large stock of folk tales - not all of them appropriate for a polite audience." Gerald Ford is the one who was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. Only King in the book. Pity...
...equal, but something seems to happen a little while after that when we find out our economic status. Today many of the more privileged youth of this country, think only of consolidating their next eggs while millions of other young people worry about whether they'll find a job. Lincoln said that this nation could not endure permanently half slave and half free, and that goes for the economically enslaved in America today as well. This nation must endure, and it is our duty, the young people's duty, to see that it does...
...Frontiersman George Rogers Clark. A group in Chicago is restoring several turn-of-the-century mansions that were once owned by such business giants as Merchant Marshall Field and Railroad Car Manufacturer George Pullman. Downstate Illinois is threatened with a surfeit of Lincolnania. About 25 communities plan to commemorate Lincoln, including Springfield, where the state is setting up a lavish $600,000 sound-and-light show in the Old State Capitol Building that will recount key events in his life...