Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street." Both chambers responded with thunderous applause. As a further bipartisan touch, the President had a portrait of Harry Truman, whom Ford admires for his courage and straightforwardness, hung on a wall in the Cabinet Room next to a portrait of his other favorite President, Lincoln...
...read letters and numbers backward much of the time. During his political career, he has been forced to memorize his speeches so that he would not stumble over the words. With a scholarly life pretty much closed to him, he had trouble getting good grades at the progressive Lincoln School in Manhattan. But he worked hard enough at Dartmouth to graduate Phi Beta Kappa...
...afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears." When Rivera demurred, he was paid $21,000 and dismissed. The mural was finally chipped off the wall and replaced with a more conventional, sepia painting that featured Abe Lincoln and Thomas Edison...
...Asian arts and cultural exchanges between the U.S. and Asia. John D. III recently gave his superb private collection of Asian art (valued at over $10 million) to the Asia Society, which he established in 1956. He was a prime mover in the development of Manhattan's Lincoln Center, to which he gave $11 million...
Bouncy Spirits. The pity of it is that Franz did have talent. Last week in New York at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival (Wolfgang Sr., that is), listeners got a rare chance to hear Franz's Piano Concerto No. 2 in E Flat, Op. 25. The soloist was the eminent Gary Graffman, that master of diverse styles for whom the score was reconstructed and edited from the original edition by the New York composer and musicologist Douglas Townsend...