Word: lincolnitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fifth congressional district looks something like a pserodactyl. Its tall stretches out to Wess Townsend, the westernmost Lincoln in Middlesex County, the body takes contains the affident, liberal heartland of Concern, Weston, Lincoln and Sudbury and the booming high tech area around Route 128 and Interstate 495. To the north, Lowell and Lawrence, two mill towns trying to stage comebacks stick out like a clumsy head...
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DIED. Philip Van Doren Stern, 83, prolific, versatile novelist, editor and historian, whose Civil War-era writings include a biography of Robert E. Lee, an anthology of Lincoln's writings and a history of the Confederate navy; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. An editor at Pocket Books between 1933 and 1954, he presided during World War II over the Armed Services Editions, those much treasured paperbacks light enough to be carried into battle. Author or editor of 44 books, he also wrote The Greatest Gift, a 1944 Christmas fantasy about a man who discovers that life...
...avoid doing anything in a superficial way," says Gilbert Kaplan, 43, the publisher of Institutional Investor. So he does. In 1982 the amateur musician rented Avery Fisher Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center and hired the American Symphony Orchestra so that 2,700 friends and associates could hear him conduct Mahler's "Resurrection" Symphony. Last week Kaplan took another characteristically direct action. Increasingly distracted from the publishing company he founded 17 years ago, Kaplan announced its sale, in addition to 18 TV and radio stations, to Capital Cities Communications, owner of W and Women...
This book is irreverent, unfair and subversive. What more could anyone ask for? It begins with the 16th century geological musings of Martin Luther: "Longer ago than 6,000 years the world did not exist." It hurtles downhill from there toward outright insolence. Did Abraham Lincoln really say in 1859, "Negro equality! Fudge! How long . . . shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to quip, so low a piece of demagogism as this"? Did the U.S. Labor Department truly announce that 1930 would be "a splendid employment year...