Word: lincolnisms
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...example, Ho could examine scientific issues at Harvard, he said. Rockwell, who organized the Lincoln Center Festival, the largest multi-arts festival in the country, might focus on improving the arts at Harvard, Reardon said...
CLIP JOB This week in Los Angeles, Butterfield & Butterfield will auction off a tuft of Abraham Lincoln's hair, with, the catalog promises, traces of the President's blood still visible. The hair was clipped during Lincoln's postmortem and wrapped in a telegram, which is included. Bid estimates...
Hundreds of well-dressed women are sniffing one another. They sit under a marquee spelling THAT'S SCENTERTAINMENT in Manhattan's Lincoln Center, asking one another, "Do you like my fragrance?" The answer, invariably...
WYNTON MARSALIS (1961- ) A master soloist and bandleader and a Pulitzer prizewinning composer, Marsalis has championed Neo-Traditionalism. Committed to the belief that the style created in the years between Armstrong and Davis is America's true classical music, he cofounded Jazz at Lincoln Center. His seminal album, Standard Time, Vol. 1 (1987), treats works by Ellington and Parker with passionate devotion...
...rhetoric. So he got his first wife to sign an affidavit saying it was her adultery that broke up the marriage, and he got his wife-to-be, former Miss America Tara Dawn Holland, to swear that she is a virgin "saving herself for marriage." He attacked his opponent, Lincoln's Mayor Mike Johanns, over nudity on a public TV station in Lincoln that the mayor doesn't control...