Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILLIAM D. HARRINGTON JR. LINCOLN, MASS...
...third anniversary of the Supreme Court's epochal desegregation decision, some 14,000 Negroes and whites, members of a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, converged on Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring...
...Sukarno and Voroshilov arrived at the presidential palace, a group of admirers swarmed toward Sukarno's Lincoln convertible. Jittery Soviet and Indonesian security officers ordered the police into action. Swinging clubs and rifle butts, the police charged the crowd. A police jeep drove head-on into one group of spectators. Enraged, the crowd counterattacked, were driven off only after army units used tear-gas bombs...
...from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall, sad, lonely Lincoln--is assassinated in a historical facsimile, and Northern monsters, carpetbaggers, give the Negroes more than equal rights, disfranchise the gentry, and set the South back countless years...
...acting is poor, but not wretched; the film is choppy, lacing together snapshots, almost, of war on the front, life at home, carpetbagger atrocities, and Lincoln--brave, good Lincoln in death; but it achieves some continuity, and is the best epic I have seen; which doesn't say much for movie epics in general--or for Birth of a Nation...