Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wellesley's Group 20 Players offered a fine foretaste of the high standards that we can expect during their regular summer schedule in their production of Robert E. Sherwood's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois." This too was a good choice; it is not so much a play as a series of twelve vignettes, but it has already become a warm and humane American classic. It is great because it doesn...
...annually. A representative weekly food ration for a slave was "a peck of meal, three pounds of bacon, and a pint of molasses." The housing rule of thumb on the plantations was six Negroes to one room, usually 16 ft. by 18 ft. in size, but the log cabin Lincoln grew up in was meaner than some slave quarters...
...BAUGHAN Lincoln...
...named O. Worsham Rudd. By show time she has the script memorized and never uses cue cards. She sometimes views kinescopes of old programs, looking for flawed gestures and diction ("I have a tendency to make my r's too pronounced"). As she delivered her isoth commercial for Lincoln last week, Julia knew precisely what effect she wanted to achieve: "I hope that when I come on-camera I get an 'Oh' of delight, and not 'Oh, her again...
...threatened for his "secularism." Eliot in 1885 encountered an organized alumni campaign to block the free elective system. Lowell in 1916 was attacked for the presence on the Faculty of pro-German professors. Conant's mail was constantly enlivened by letters such as that received in 1935 from Alexander Lincoln, Jr. '32, who pointed out that "My Class this year celebrated its fortieth anniversary and an overwhelming majority of its members...are utterly opposed to the New Deal and all its work." Lincoln then drew the logical conclusion...