Word: lincolnisms
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...Abraham Lincoln said, "The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend." President Reagan has a chance to make a breakthrough in our relationship with the Soviets if he has the vision to do it. History will judge him as either the President who bankrupted his country preparing for nuclear war or the President who had the courage to stop the arms race. Tired of the cold war, the country is crying our for the latter. Ted Keener Bend...
...School of American Ballet had its start in 1933 with a legendary exchange between George Balanchine, then 28 and a Russian émigré choreographer living by his wits, and Lincoln Kirstein, two years his junior and a rich American aesthete with billowing ambitions to further the arts in his country. He invited Balanchine to start a ballet troupe in the U.S. The choreographer replied, "But first a school." As always, Mr. B. was right; a company like the New York City Ballet could not exist with the sketchy training that was available here...
...Metropolitan Opera by an enterprising music lover armed with an Edison cylinder machine. The sound is strictly low-fi, the scratchy surface noise is sometimes overwhelming, and the tantalizing fragments often break off abruptly with a singer in mid-phrase. But listening to them is thrilling, like hearing Lincoln recite the Gettysburg Address...
...cases, break and disappear. As early as 1938, collectors began preserving the priceless vocal treasures. Now a team of two critics and a recording engineer, under the auspices of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Performing Arts Research Center and the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, has heroically rescued all 134 of the surviving playable cylinders and issued them in a $100, six-record set available through the Metropolitan Opera Guild...
...McKim, Mead and White in architecture. Today portrait sculpture is dead, and the photo opportunity reigns. But Saint-Gaudens lived in an age when sculpture was thought the supreme mode of official commemoration, and the types he created are still very much with us. Our iconic sense of Abraham Lincoln as statesman, seamed, grave and erect, was created as much by Saint-Gaudens' bronzes as by Mathew Brady's photos. Our image of the repressive, striding Puritan with Bible, cloak and conical hat owes much of its existence to the rhetoric of Saint-Gaudens' monument to Deacon Samuel Chapin...