Word: lincolnisms
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...pills for a dicey heart), his incessant self-celebration and his absolute refusal to believe there was anything finer than to be born an American, unless to die as one in some glorious battle for the flag, the great "Teddy" was as representative of 20th century dynamism as Abraham Lincoln had been of 19th century union and George Washington of 18th century independence...
...Lincoln was a whore before he was president...
...Lincoln was a whore before he was president, then maybe the real lesson is that it's better to stay out politics--at least as long as fellatio presides in the Oval Office...
...Auden and Robert Lowell, the poems also have a sharp confessional kick worthy of Anne Sexton at her most bruising. In "My Mammogram," McClatchy, 52 (editor of the Yale Review and author of the libretto for Emmeline, a new opera by Tobias Picker that opens next week at Lincoln Center), recounts a disturbing examination for cancer of the male breast: "Mammography's on the basement floor./ The nurse has an executioner's gentle eyes./ I start to unbutton my shirt. She shuts the door." The diagnosis: no malignancy, but an identity-warping excess of the female hormone estrogen...
...students pursued the prostitutes only to run into their pimps--three men armed with knives who stabbed Thomas Lincoln' 77 in the abdomen and, after a chase, stabbed Andrew Puopolo ' 77 in the heart and lungs...