Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vivian Beaumont Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center is the dramatic equivalent of Russian roulette. It is played with breathtaking regularity at this house, which in 15 years of fitful existence has never had any precisely defined aesthetic goal or financial stability. As a result, the persisting apprehension is that any given season, even any given production, may be the last...
...proposed cuts for the 2 1/2 budget include the laying off of 269 teachers and 80 administrators as well as the closing of the Haggerty and Lincoln elementary schools...
...magic over a decade for Presidents and visiting heads of state. Reagan has sat in the library with the dark red walls where Andrew Jackson took coffee, and he has brushed by the shadowy parlor where Robert E. Lee turned down command of the Union armies in 1861. Abraham Lincoln used to wander across to Blair House during the Civil War, a troubled giant who came for relief from the grim story of war through friends and humor...
...table for two in the paneled dining room of the Hay-Adams Hotel. Maybe they knew it, maybe not, but surely they felt the heritage of two who used to live on the site: Henry Adams, author and descendant of Presidents, and John Hay, a personal secretary to Lincoln and later Secretary of State to McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. The Reagans nibbled on Dover sole and an omelette where Stuart Symington, 79, the erect and handsome former Senator from Missouri, used to court his first wife, Evelyn Wadsworth, granddaughter...
...broke out a bottle of vodka that had been given to him by Leonid Brezhnev in Vienna in 1979 and reminisced with some of his cronies about the early political years and the lost campaign. The Carters invited Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom on their final night in the White House...