Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their prepared texts studded with Abraham Lincoln quotations, Republican Cabinet members, Congressmen and lesser lights boarded planes out of Washington last week for a traditional political rite: the delivery across the land of some 5,000 speeches honoring the birthday (150th) of their party's father. But, to the outrage of Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn, the Democrats stole the Lincoln Day show by laying on the biggest celebration of them all, right there in Washington. Democratic leaders in both houses set up a solemn joint session to hear the U.S. Army band play patriotic tunes, the U.S. Coast...
James N. White '21, donor of the gift, has expressed the hope that "other things being equal" the scholarship might go, from time to time to "students from Mr. McCord's Lincoln High School in Portland, Ore., or from other Oregon high schools, or from Lawrenceville in New Jersey, from which his father was graduated...
...Meet Mr. Lincoln...
...stage. While the theater thrives on speech, it tends to wither on a constant diet of speeches. But if The Rivalry is necessarily talky, it is rarely small-talky. And Playwright Corwin could scarcely have picked better vocal foils or more dramatic look-unlikes than Richard Boone's Lincoln and Martin Gabel's Douglas...
...Gabel is every half-inch "the Little Giant." His voice is a minefield of riches-the silver of persuasion, the gold of assurance, the hard diamond of logic, and sometimes the brass of sheer arrogance. Tall, gangling TV Star (Medic; Have Gun, Will Travel) Richard Boone brings to his Lincoln the homely gravity of the Mathew Brady photographs. His drawling voice begins like a modest rivulet picking its way over pebbles of country wit and wisdom, then swiftens into a stream of social inquiry and protest, and finally cascades in a thundering waterfall of conscience aroused: "A vast portion...