Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Film Festival, which opened its twelfth annual installment at Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week, could use a friendly, or at least a forbearing hand. Each year, a selection committee headed by Festival Director Richard Roud (who also functions as a critic for scholarly film magazines like Sight and Sound) picks a couple of dozen movies for showing, and promptly finds itself attacked on one of two fronts...
...second week in a row, the ground attack, with leading runner Neal Miller on the sidelines, was disappointing. The only rays of hope were the performances of sophomores Tom Lincoln and Tom Winn. Winn, subbing for the injured Ed Cronin, was particularly impressive, averaging four yards a carry on 13 tries. He appears to be the only runner with good outside speed on the team...
Other people persist in seeing moral issues where there are none. For the democratic rights of Black people are not to be secured by a moral system but a political one. Even Abraham Lincoln, no freedom fighter he, grasped this point: "If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save...
...Park High School, black and white students held separate meetings and elected ten representatives each to a committee charged with bringing peace to the classrooms and corridors. The committee then requested the aid of a biracial mediation team composed of Dalton Bough, a black youth worker, and William F. Lincoln of the National Center for Dispute Settlement...
After a few sessions, Lincoln reported that the kids were making progress. "They are not talking about integration," he said, "they are talking about education-and that's cool...