Word: lincolnisms
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President John F. Kennedy's offspring, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy Jr., have accused their late father's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, of breaching their trust by misappropriating items that belong to history or to them -- and are asking that the items be returned. "It is now clear that Mrs. Lincoln took advantage of her position as our father's secretary, and later as custodian of objects intended for the Library, by taking home with her countless documents and objects that had belonged to our father and to the United States Government," the Kennedys said. Lincoln, who died...
Ultimately, the movie makes the case that Clinton and his mouthpieces are too squeamish to put on the record: strong leaders have strong libidos; the President may be flawed, but look what he has done. "You don't think Abraham Lincoln was a whore before he was a President?" Stanton asks his aide Henry Burton. "He had to tell his little stories and smile his s___-eating back-country grin. He did it all just so he'd get the opportunity to stand in front of the nation and appeal to the better angels of our nature." It's enough...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra have never heard of Maxwell. That didn't keep them from playing an excellent rendition of Mahler's Third Symphony last Friday to a packed house at Symphony Hall. The Symphony was accompanied by The Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the P.A.L.S. (Performing Artists at Lincoln School) and directed by Seiji Ozawa. The Orchestra played the music so pleasantly that throughout the performance they kept the audience in those most enjoyable moments just before sleep. The French horn section stood out and played beautifully in all of the sections in which they could be easily distinguished. Even...
...hunters found their quarry right where he was meant to be, the place he had picked with the same care he brought to his other handiwork. Lincoln, Mont., sits as close as you can get to the spine of the western hemisphere and still have a post office and a library within walking distance. Theodore John Kaczynski lived at heaven's back door, just below the largest stretch of unbroken wilderness in the continental U.S. There are no cars, no roads, no buildings beyond a shelter or two, and on any given day more grizzly bears than people. This...
...fists] Secretary of State William Seward tried to avoid the Civil War in 1861 by offering to abandon Fort Sumter and provoke war with Spain. Lincoln put the kibosh on these plans, and the nationwent...