Word: lincolnisms
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Kiarostami, who received the Cannes Film Festival’s highest honor in 1997, had planned to premiere the film at a sold-out opening at Lincoln Center’s New York Film Festival Sept. 29 and introduce it in person at the Harvard Film Archive...
...silence, though, is that they are a symptom of our increasingly disjointed society. Our shared grief ought to unite us; it ought to inspire public figures to compose speeches of simple eloquence. But it is difficult to come together, and it is difficult to express grief as gracefully as Lincoln did at Gettysburg. It is far easier (and far worse) to nurse our individual grief, far easier (and far worse) to declare our grief unspeakable and to invite us instead to observe moments of silence...
...William K. Weaver ’98-’03 was reminded of elementary school when Karen H. Lincoln ’05 told him how much she hated Jake Q. Wiley ’05 while Wiley gave her the finger. But there was nothing childish about the way the two started sucking face 45 minutes later on the sidewalk in front of Eliot...
...Lincoln Craven-Brightman, four-and-a-half year-old. Lincoln’s dad, Howard Brightman, is a student at the Harvard School of Public Health. Planets. I also want to know about motorcycles and how to make cardboard airplanes...
...amount of commercialized, patriotic one-upmanship—from features sensationalizing the tragedy and profiting from ratings to an “American Idol” singing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—should distract us from taking the necessary time to pause, in silence, and remember. Today is for the janitors and investment bankers, the foreign nationals and American firefighters, for all those who lost their lives...