Word: lincolnisms
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...youngest Senate Democratic leader ever, in four short years. Caro, whose great gifts are indefatigable legwork and a sense of historical drama and character, has a fine protagonist for his life's work. His Johnson, a man of Manichaean contraries, is now familiar--by turns Caligula and Lincoln, a narcissistic monster capable of immense personal cruelty and breathtaking political cynicism who now and then metamorphoses into an angel of compassion and statesmanship...
Numerous BFD and rescue units responded to the scene at NStar’s 288 Lincoln St. substation...
...cannot convey onstage every event related to its characters or plotting, buck misguidedly approaches this limitation by only showing the most highly charged scenes, recounting the rest via narration. This approach runs into difficulty when many of the same types of scenes are presented, such as multiple iterations of Lincoln in the bedroom with the white woman and the white “master...
While everyone recognizes the existence of a code between blacks and whites, few characters seem conscious of a similar code between men and women. The male dominates the female in buck, whether it be Brett silencing Jane’s voice of resistance, Lincoln having sex with Jane as a mere bodily stand-in for the white women, or Robert Aniston denying his wife Amanda’s claim that her sex with Lincoln was consensual...
...racial connection is clear: one can discern the same disregard in the way Brett treats Lincoln and Jane; but a clear connection between the male treatment of both white women and women of color is conspicuously absent...