Word: lincoln
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...Abraham Lincoln understood what post--Civil War Reconstruction would demand. Franklin Roosevelt understood what recovery from the Depression would require. This President doesn't seem to understand what recuperating from Katrina is all about. I wish he were as interested in helping the country come to grips with it as he appears to be in saving his own political skin...
Saturday, Oct. 29. Copland, Stravinsky, Concerto Competition. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the country, kicks off its 2005-2006 season with several blockbuster pieces, including Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. Sanders Theatre. Tickets $12-16; students $8-12. Tickets available online, at the Harvard Box Office, or by subscription...
...JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER 212-258-9800; jalc.org New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis and Elvis Costello headline a Sept. 17 benefit concert that will air live...
...just published a book on sloth, assuring readers they have "the right to be lazy," but playwright Wendy Wasserstein doesn't claim that right for herself. Her new play, Third, opens next month at New York City's Lincoln Center. A musical based on her children's book Pamela's First Musical debuts in April. And her first novel, Elements of Style, comes out in May. Wasserstein talked to TIME's BARBARA ISENBERG about what fuels all that prose...
...series about a prison break would seem to carry the seeds of its own premature conclusion (Scofield must bust his bro out before his execution in three months). But there is a wider, more shadowy scheme at work: people in the government badly want Lincoln dead and silenced. That could sustain a long run, as well as intraprison intrigue, including a simmering racial rumble. And who knows? Maybe, 24-style, Scofield could break out of a bigger and better prison every season (Rikers Island! Guantánamo!). Sure, that would take some strenuous plotting gymnastics. But in its confident debut, Break...