Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lincoln, around Cambridge Reservoir, and then come back in through Watertown," says Allis...
...will culminate on Oct. 24, the anniversary of the ratification of the U.N. Charter. President Reagan is expected to speak to the General Assembly that week, along with dozens of Prime Ministers and several potentates, including a few Kings. The Secret Service will airlift the President's bulletproof, armored Lincoln Continental on an Air Force transport from Washington, but foreign dignitaries will have to make do with rented limos. Fugazy, New York's largest limousine purveyor, offers cars equipped with flag holders, but the company reports that only six such autos have been requested. Few heads of state, it seems...
What puzzles is Grant's sudden greatness, his rising to the occasion, and the brutality of his greatness, what might be called the bloody abstraction of it. It was as if Grant had rescinded some logic of cause and effect. Lincoln's best generals failed: refulgent characters like George McClellan and "Fighting Joe" Hooker, who would not fight. Grant, the failure, succeeded. Down the years, if anyone has bothered to think about Grant, he has had to wonder whether the man was a genius (his native genius hidden till the crucial moment) or a nonentity who blundered into momentary success...
...that signifies to be; to do; or to % suffer. I signify all three." What Grant said about his dying was true of his life. It was only as a verb, that is, as a warrior, that he found focus. Grant had an animal sense of moment and motion. Mary Lincoln thought for a time during the siege of Richmond that Grant was a mere "butcher," and most of the North agreed. But he was a far better soldier than that. He could march strategies across a landscape the way a cat can walk across a dressing table laden with perfume...
DIED. Ruth Gordon, 88, outspoken actress whose seven-decade career first peaked in the 1930s and '40s, when she reaped acclaim in such works as Broadway's A Doll's House (1937) and Hollywood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), then crested again in her 70s when she became a cult figure, especially for young people, in such offbeat films as Where's Poppa? (1970), Harold and Maude (1971) and, most notably, Rosemary's Baby (1968), for which she won a supporting actress Oscar; of a stroke; in Edgartown, Mass. Talented in many modes, she also wrote two hit plays...