Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, likes to tell about the time that the University made a deal with the city back in the thirties to trade the land where Lincoln Square fire station now stands for the property on which Littauer was built. Lincoln Square is now the center of all fire operations in Cambridge; its station contains the city's main fire switchboard. Littauer is, of course, the headquarters of the School of Public Administration. Cooperation paid off then. And two shrewd traders were bound to learn the lesson...
...England abolitionists and dream-wrapped Southern devotees of Sir Walter Scott; the unnecessary struggle that resulted eventually ended, as it had to do, with victory for the side with the most iron foundries; it was rather a pity that the names of two such broad-minded individuals as Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee ever got mixed up in this intolerant and partisan affair...
...Currently, he has three: a second-hand 1948 Lincoln Continental; a Chevrolet convertible and a new Muntz Jet, which has an aluminum body, a Cadillac engine and a top speed of 140 m.p.h...
...trick-shot artist in a post-bellum copper-mining town where Villain MacDonald Carey is whipping up anti-Confederate feeling for crass economic reasons. The ex-colonel rallies the underprivileged Southerners, converts Adventuress Lamarr to righteousness and does his bit to bind the nation's wounds by quoting Lincoln on "malice toward none." What is especially depressing about Copper Canyon is not so much its dreary reprise of movies best forgotten as its dreary portent of movies still to come...
...Sandburg, during a long productive life, has developed least as a writer, changed least as a man. His poetry, dredged raw from the look and experience of "the people," is from start to finish a shrewd, tender, cantankerous and lovingly slangy impressionist folk-portrait. Even his monumental biography, Abraham Lincoln, ungainly and near-noble, is a research-buttressed prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from all but their private claques. Sandburg...