Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...snap judgment that few would challenge-namely, that Maya Plisetskaya is the finest female classical dancer in the world. Last week the reigning ballerina of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet headed a group of touring stars from the company in a week-long engagement at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Shrewdly, the management announced in advance that she would dance at every performance; otherwise, seeing this uneven cadre of Bolshoiviks -actually, they constitute less than one-third of the entire troupe-without her would be as interesting as watching the New York Jets without Joe Namath...
...just such forlorn human beings whom Abraham Lincoln, the greatest of presidential pardoners, could not resist. Lincoln believed in a stern divine justice, yet time and again during the Civil War he exasperated his generals by pardoning boys who faced execution for such capital crimes as sleeping on sentry duty or even desertion. But Lincoln's pardons were often just commutations of death sentences, not passports to complete freedom; offenders could still find themselves at hard labor on the dread Dry Tortugas. Ford's pardon of Nixon may stem from similar motives of compassion, but it is hardly the same...
...agents, the long-ago mayor of Warm Springs, the undertakers who worked on F.D.R.'s wasted body. Most of them were sympathetic to Roosevelt, telling Bishop the intimate details that he needed in order to weave the kind of narrative that has given him bestsellers before (The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Day Christ Died). Bishop has produced a rare, humanizing portrait of Roosevelt, including the fullest account yet of the President's enduring and wistful love affair with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, who died...
...third view is that there is very little relationship between Z.P.G. and Z.E.G. Sociologist Lincoln Day believes that "there is nothing in a stationary population itself that would inevitably be productive of any particular economic change or condition...
...backups for these three, and perhaps even some potential starters, are Tom Lincoln, Burrelle Duvauchelle, Tom Winn and Steve Dart. Running backs: Good to excellent...