Word: lincolnian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope is that there will be another change in feeling, that sterile extremism will go the way of McCarthyism, that Americans, young as well as old, will return to a Lincolnian patriotism that permits each man pride in his own country and strives for a world in which all men can pursue their own ideal of freedom...
...Kirstein has tried to stuff every bit of Lincolnian legend-fluff there is into the few hours before the President's trip to Ford theater. Ann Rutledge, William Herndon, Matthew Brady, Crazy Mary, Drunk Ulysses, dirty stories, trips down the Old Mississippi, unorthodox but deep faith, what he really felt about the Negroes and more and more. Since Kirstein's sole thread of dramatic coherence is Lincoln's growing consciousness that this day is the ordained and necessary day of death, the catalogue of anecdote and reference might be, lamely but legitimately, the drowning man's life passing before...
Teddy Rooseveltian. The Senator is repeatedly asked how a man of his liberalism can fit within the G.O.P. In conversation last week the question came up again, and Javits said: "My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian. Besides, I have a greater sense of advocacy of business than most Democrats...