Word: lincoln
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...with monuments, several of them quite affecting. But as + the Viet Nam War was singular and strange, the dark, dreamy, redemptive memorial to its American veterans is like no other. "It's more solemn," says National Park Service Ranger Sarah Page, who has also worked at the memorials honoring Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson. "People give it more respect." Lately it has been the most visited monument in the capital: 2.3 million saw it in 1984, about 45,000 a week, but it is currently drawing 100,000 a week. Where does it get its power--to console, and also...
...Ronald Reagan would have to name a replacement for Liberals Brennan or Marshall or sometime Liberals Blackmun or John Paul Stevens, seemingly in his prime at 64. During the 1984 campaign, both sides noted that the winner probably would join a short list of very fortunate Presidents--Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Taft and Franklin Roosevelt--whom fate allowed to mold the court in their own images. For that reason, says Tribe, normally a critic of the Burger era, "I'm for mandatory life-support systems for the current court." But no such emergency intervention is necessary for the moment. The present...
...equivalent to Britain's National Theater or Royal Shakespeare Company. New plays would be mounted and the classics reconsidered in an environment sheltered from the hit-or-extinction extremities of Broadway. Over the decades attempts have been made, with varying degrees of success, at New York City's Lincoln Center and Public Theater and at regional companies including the Guthrie in Minneapolis, the Yale Repertory Theater and Robert Brustein's American Repertory Theater at Harvard. Last week the newest candidate took center stage. The American National Theater, headed by Peter Sellars, 27, opened at Washington's Kennedy Center with...
Ralph: Wait, Wanda! I want to say a word about retroendorsements. You know what I mean--endorsements that might have been if other people had been as alert as Gerry. I'm thinking of Abe Lincoln for Log Cabin syrup, Torquemada for flame-broiled whoppers or Judas Iscariot for Franklin Mint silver coins. With artistic control, Judas wouldn't actually have to hold the coins up or anything. His kids could be shown flipping them casually in the background among the Roman soldiers...
...voice and British inflection seem a bit too uptown for a Puerto Rican girl from New York City's tough West Side, but she floats a golden high pianissimo at the end of Tonight effortlessly. Troyanos, who was born in the neighborhood where the musical is set (and where Lincoln Center now stands), crackles uninhibitedly in the rhythmically ) infectious immigration anthem America. And Bernstein, leading an orchestra of New York free-lancers, conducts authoritatively and irresistibly...