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...raid, the Secret Service suggested a list of security measures at the White House: camouflaging the building, placing machine guns on the roof, covering the skylights with sand and tin. Roosevelt rejected most of the suggestions, to show that the capital stood unbowed--much as, a century earlier, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the construction of the Capitol dome be completed in the midst of the Civil War. Similarly, on Tuesday President Bush decided to end the day in Washington rather than in a NORAD bunker. On Friday he presided over a national day of prayer, giving prominent roles to people...
...Lady Bird] made the [Lyndon] Johnson presidency possible," insists Marton. Coaxing her husband into running on his own in 1964, when he was in the final months of John Kennedy's unfinished term, Lady Bird wrote, "Beloved, you are as brave a man as Harry Truman--or FDR--or Lincoln...To step out now would be wrong for your country, and I can see nothing but a lonely wasteland for your future...
...literature so closely and so well, finding so much meaning in our great books, even for 2001--especially for 2001--that he stands worthy of recognition. His own books and essays, most of which draw on his study of writers from Jonathan Edwards in the 18th century to Abraham Lincoln in the 19th to Lionel Trilling in the 20th, inspire Americans to revisit some of our oldest ideas and remember a time when we could speak of a "civil religion" without irony, when the notion of sacrifice for country didn't seem confined to Spielberg-Hanks movies...
...must admit that I went a bit stir-crazy in D.C. and stole back to New York for a weekend. While in town I was lucky enough to see a reading at Lincoln Center of William Finn’s A New Brain. Though this work did not enjoy a particularly long NY run, it has had a healthy regional life, and I would love to see it come to a Harvard stage. Its off-Broadway cast is featured on one of my favorite recordings, with Malcolm Gets, best known as Richard on Caroline in the City, but also...
...which was receiving its first regional production at Long Island’s Cultural Arts Playhouse. I won’t comment much on the production, which was fine for a low-profile regional theater. However, I can say that I missed Parade during its quite brief stint at Lincoln Center a couple of years back, and knew and loved it only from its recording. I began to understand its mixed reviews when I noted how poorly the book serves the music and the dramatic purpose of the piece. Still, with Jason Robert Brown’s varied and moving...