Word: lincolnisms
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...write in response to an issue of the “Comeuppance” comic strip (May 23). The strip shows a masked man sitting at a theater balcony while another man, who is apparently Abraham Lincoln, sneaks up behind him and assassinates him. When the mask is pulled off, it is revealed to be Adolf Hitler, and Lincoln is portrayed as saying: “Nobel Peace Prize...
This is the story of a kind of paradise and how, over a six-month period starting last fall, it was almost consumed from within. Chartered in 1864 by Abraham Lincoln, Gallaudet is host to only 2,000 students each year. But to America's estimated 2 million deaf people, the university's symbolic heft outstrips that of the U.S. Capitol, five minutes south by car. The deaf Harvard, Wharton and Brookings rolled into one, it has produced generations of leaders, activists and entrepreneurs. Whether in classrooms where teachers lecture in sign language, on playing fields where athletes key into...
...Iridium, a basement jazz club across from Lincoln Center in Manhattan, Les Paul sidles up a narrow aisle between tables. He is smaller, more gnomish, but still recognizably the wizard of Waukesha, the garage mechanic's son who revolutionized the way music was played and recorded. And since he turned 86 just two days before, and is looking forward to celebrating his birthday with some famous friends, Paul has a special glow. He sits on a stool surrounded by a few admiring musicians and starts playing 'Over the Rainbow' on one of his famous guitars...
...literature. Ben Franklin liked to pose as the common man, and the simple sayings in Poor Richard's Almanac cloaked profound ideas. Both Tom Sawyer and his creator Mark Twain liked to pass themselves off as country bumpkins who were easily duped before they cleverly duped you. Abraham Lincoln invariably described himself as a slow-speaking country lawyer before outwitting his rivals...
...Politicians have followed along in this sea-change. They always predict victory, even when they're down 20 points in the polls. They tell you once and then tell you again and again why they are the better candidate. This is something that would have been very foreign to Lincoln, and even to John Kennedy. It was bad manners as well as bad politics to be over-confident and boastful...