Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pepper said that old people want to be treated like people. A corollary belief apparently is that he wants to act like people. One day, en route to a Miami luncheon where he was to be honored, we walked through the garage of his condominium and into his large Lincoln automobile. Surveying the cramped space and the huge guzzler, I thought: He'll never be able to maneuver it out of here. He did, though. But the engine was sputtering, and as we hit a main thoroughfare, it quit on him altogether. I told him that if he would...
...Methodist ministers there. After his parents were divorced, Harold, the youngest of four children in a family in which there were also six stepchildren, was raised by his father Roy, who was a lawyer as well as a minister, and a Democrat in an era when most blacks were Lincoln Republicans. During World War II, Harold did a three-year stint in the Army Air Corps and emerged with sergeant's stripes. He attended Roosevelt College on the G.I. Bill and, though one of only some 20 blacks among 400 seniors, was voted president of his class. He graduated...
...CYNICAL and streetwise crew in the Bronx district attorney's office have isolated a new cause of death that they've dubbed Lincolnitis. Named after Lincoln Hospital, an understaffed mainstay of its South Bronx neighborhood, Lincolnitis is said to afflict a wide range of patients who expire at Lincoln after entering with less-than-fatal maladies...
...While Lincoln Hospital represents for many Bronx residents a sad comment on how our nation has allowed the namesake of a great American statesman to languish, underfunded and struggling to meet the health needs of its impoverished and largely minority clientele, Lindsay Anderson in Britannia Hospital has given us a bitingly, blackly humorous look at the other extreme. The good Britannia Hospital could hardly be better equipped, or more doted on by a loving government. The film, which spans just one-day--the 500th anniversary of the hospital--encompasses the dedication of the fabulously expensive Millar Center for Advanced Surgical...
Despite all the modern technology, high budgets, and advanced science, Anderson's highly bureaucratized health machine is really no better than the Bronx's Lincoln Hospital, and Anderson offers no suggestions as to how to improve either. All he seems to do is point out that while the modern condition is inherently hopeless, at least in Britannia Hospital you'll die laughing...