Word: lincoln
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...continuing love of the word I am indeed grateful. At my present age I can recapture almost perfectly -- perhaps totally perfectly -- the emotion I felt when I first read certain pieces. I have just read again Whitman's threnody on the death of Abraham Lincoln...
...same night. They are greeted at the entrance by handsome young Seminole men in black tuxedos who direct them to the ticket windows. There they buy bingo packets costing from $79 to $289. They may win cash prizes ranging from a few dollars to $125,000, or a new Lincoln Town Car, or a beach-front condominium, or a trip to Las Vegas...
...enough, have ethical issues been raised. But complaints go back at least to George Washington's pardon of two leaders of the Whisky Rebellion, and have surfaced during campaigns to pardon Eugene Debs, Tokyo Rose, Jefferson Davis and Samuel Mudd, the physician jailed for setting the broken leg of Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth...
Instead one thinks of an institutionalized, not to say industrialized, sweetness: the Chagall of the blue, boneless angels, the muralist of Lincoln Center and the fresco painter of the Paris Opera, the stained-glass artist who flooded interiors from the U.N. headquarters in New York City to Reims Cathedral in France to the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem with the soothing light of benign sentiment. His quasi-religious imagery, modular and diffuse at the same time, would serve (with adjustments: drop the flying cow, put in a menorah) to commemorate nearly anything, from the Holocaust to the self...
Unfortunately, a lot of the Civil War myths remain. We teach our children that the war was fought to end slavery because we can't teach them the truth--that hundreds of thousands of Americans were sacrificed so that Abraham Lincoln could be the president of both Boston and Baton Rouge...