Word: lincolnisms
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...such that Britain should not be subsumed into Europe. Secondly, Britain should not go back to pre-Thatcher levels of spending and taxation. TIME: Is it true you're obsessed with Napoleon? BLACK: Absolutely not. He was a great general, but I have more admiration for Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt. It's like all these stupid theories written about me that say I play with toy soldiers. That's a load of you know what. TIME: When can we expect Hollinger's stock to go up? BLACK: A lot of companies, such as the one you write for, have...
...second volume of his Theodore Roosevelt biography (the first was his splendid "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt"), will have a first printing of over 200,000. Doris Kearns Goodwin, having already studied the Kennedys and the Franklin Roosevelts to handsome effect, is hard at work on Abraham Lincoln...
...putting on this radio show was fun. Otherwise, why do it? And the enjoyment the Mercury team had in doing a tough job superbly is everywhere audible to today?s listeners. The narrative tone varied from show to show, as in a well- chosen theater repertory. A stentorian "Abraham Lincoln" was followed by Schnitzler?s sad-gay "The Affairs of Anatol"; a jaunty Holmes-Moriarty saga gave way to "Hell on Ice," a docudrama of a disastrous North Pole expedition, and one of the most adroitly harrowing hours you could shiver through. Houseman, Welles and Howard Koch, who was hired...
...nineteenth century doesn't figure in our current discussion, although there would doubtless be much to be learned if we were to compare and contrast the whiskers of John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses Grant, and Abraham Lincoln...
...discipline and intense feeling. An image he returned to, often and each time differently, was the Death Ship, a simple block of carved wood, sometimes afloat on a green sea of dollar bills, with the tiny dorsal fins of sharks implacably circling it. Death Ship Runover by a '66 Lincoln Continental, 1966, refers not to World War II but to Vietnam, a war Westermann hated and opposed. The auto that has just run over the ship (and, by implication, its men) with an inked tire tread is the same model that belonged to Westermann's father...