Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opera is still experiencing a 50-year-old crisis stemming largely from lack of interest by modern composers, Lincoln E. Kirstein '30, former director of the New York City Center, said yesterday...
...Lincoln Kirstein former director of the New York City Center, will present the final Theodore Spencer lecture at 4 p.m. today in New Lecture Hall...
...unmitigated graft and corruption in Indiana . . . Others will be confirmed in their dislike and mistrust of politics and politicians, and many friends and foes of Ike will view with alarm or cynicism (real or feigned) the fact that Craig is Ike's boy. However, Indiana, the state Lincoln grew up in, undoubtedly molded him as much as any environment could mold him. Politics are undoubtedly played pretty much the same as they were played in Lincoln's time-in Springfield, III., or in Washington, D.C. . . . "Taken all told," in the words of Huck Finn...
Even bigger electronic brains are being readied for the Air Force's supersecret "Project Lincoln." These computers will one day direct the defense of North America by calculating the course, speed and altitude of approaching enemy planes, then firing guided missiles to intercept them. A 701 has gone to work for the Weather Bureau, and will attempt to make weather forecasting an exact science. Weathermen will feed into it hundreds of reports on rainfall, temperature, humidity, expect that the brain will be able to predict accurate weather for any place in the U.S. 48 hours in advance...
Sundaram characterized the Formosan government as "an erstwhile symbol of a power that has run away to Formosa." "Chiang Kalshek he said "is not the Abraham Lincoln of China...