Word: lincoln
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...Crossroads Looking with Hope and High Vision to the Choosing of a New and Better Future, for the RCA Building in Rockefeller Center. Rivera put in a head of Lenin and refused to take it out, though he offered to counterface it with some portraits of Lincoln and other moral equivalents. The result of this Mexican standoff was that the Rockefellers effaced the mural, while the Communist Party denounced Rivera for "opportunism." This finished Rivera's career as the conflicted Michelangelo of American capitalism, and he went back to Mexico to become the wholehearted Tintoretto of the peons...
...associate director of the 28-year-old MIT facility, Lincoln Clark Jr. '41, said that the commission did make one suggestion which has since been incorporated into the reactor's security procedures. He declined to say what the suggestion entailed...
...George MacDonald Fraser's comic-historical novels of imperial adventure. Previous volumes placed Flashman, now a mature, hard-drinking rogue, in and around the Crimean War, the African slave trade and the American gold rush. With great panache he became involved with figures ranging from Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria and Lola Montez...
...seems unable to deal with his own ambiguous feelings. He and Matilda have never had a single conversation about the presidency, Cuomo said. Slowly he rubbed his fingers over his chin. "I see that job as a burden," he answered, "not as an opportunity." He glanced over at Lincoln's bronze hands. He views the job much as Lincoln did, Cuomo said, and as Lincoln did, he muses on the biblical phrase "Let this cup pass...
Mario Matthew Cuomo, 53, the Governor of New York, is both of these men, the man of strenuous action and the man of otherworldly contemplation. Like the titans he frequently invokes--Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt--he is a man who battles inwardly between passion and reason, between his ambition and his doubts. Some believe that out of this man's head and heart may come the soul of a new Democratic Party, and perhaps the strength to lead it to the White House...