Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly every seat was taken at Tucker's funeral, held on the Met stage. The only previous funerals in the Met (in its old, Diamond Horseshoe home before the move to Lincoln Center) were those of Conductor Leopold Damrosch 90 years ago and General Manager Heinrich Conried 66 years...
...arsenic was on the skin of unwashed apples, he didn't notice the two graduate students talking as he leaned over his newest creation, the proton microscope. They were impatient to try their own more traditional experiments--analyses of ancient pottery shards--and they had driven from MIT to Lincoln Laboratories in Lexington earlier that morning expecting that Horowitz would not be there, that his new gadget would be free. Horowitz, who had come on impulse from his home three minutes away, did not seem pressured by this. Nor did he seem aware of a rapidly approaching lunch date...
...time 15 eagles were perched in the Oval Office. Eagles on the rug, on the flagpoles, on the walls. Their population and prominence have been considerably reduced. The pervasive influence in the decor now is Abraham Lincoln. There is a statuette of young Abe standing serenely on a pedestal against the wall. Looking out over the office from the bookshelves is a bust of Lincoln sculpted by Leonard Volk in about 1880. This is the creased and concerned President who held the nation together. In the hall just outside the office is a larger bust of Lincoln, a melancholy visage...
...casts his spell over the Oval Office more than anyone except Lincoln is Harry Truman. A bust of Truman is just behind Ford's desk, where he can watch over the President's shoulder as Ford conducts the nation's business...
Before Joseph Papp took over New York's problem-plagued Vivian Beaumont Theater in 1973, Brown was considered for the job, but insists he would not have taken it. Says he: "The director of Lincoln Center is a driven man." He adds, "I think all good work in the theater comes from relaxation. At Long Wharf I have New York exposure when I want it and a board of directors who understand that theater today, like opera and ballet, is not going to make money." Although Long Wharf now plays to 90% capacity in an eight-month season...