Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points, Democrats and blacks would have no just cause for complaint. But the Republican attack did not stop there. Instead, Bush's handlers tapped into the rich lode of white fear and resentment of blacks that the G.O.P. staked out more than 20 years ago, when the party of Lincoln recast itself as the embodiment of the white backlash. It started with Barry Goldwater railing against Earl Warren's Supreme Court and civil rights legislation. Then, as the long hot summers blazed, Richard Nixon courted voters with a "law-and-order" harangue. Ronald Reagan kept it up with his allusions...
...word has not spread to branches of the college either, such as the Lincoln Laboratory for Research in Lexington...
...There isn't much interest at Lincoln," says Ethan Bradford, a researcher at the the lab. "Really? They've become a varsity. I heard something about that, but I wasn't sure it was true...
What about the rhetorical level at which the campaign has been conducted? We are a long way, certainly, from the intellectual intricacies of the Lincoln- Douglas debates (which, incidentally, occurred in a senatorial, not a presidential, election). But even the crudest gestures, if unpacked with care, will be found to contain some serious intent...
...tour also took the Kroks to such cities as London, Paris, the Hague, Monte Carlo, Salzburg, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Lincoln cites as his favorite part of the tour the group's performance before an Austrian princess, who invited them to a party after the show. "It's just hard to believe that we were there dancing with princesses in the middle of the Alps," he says...