Word: lincolnitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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French called it "the greatest statue in the country, although he apparently had difficulty finishing it. He was not used to working in bronze; he is better renowned for sculpting the marble Lincoln Memorial in Washington...
...embassy acquiesced with alacrity, and late last month a Lincoln Continental bearing West Virginia plates (the embassy had requested the license number beforehand, along with the route to the college) arrived in the capital to collect Oleg and Ksana Benyukh and Oleg and Irina Shibko. The driver was Calvin Carstensen, director of community education at the college, and when he met his passengers they handed him a map with a route sketched out that flummoxed him. To go their way would inflate the normal driving time-4½ hours-by half again or more...
...schedule called for a president's reception at 4 p.m., with punch and snacks, followed by a dinner in the cafeteria, followed by a question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. The big Lincoln growled round spiny hills whose flanks were flecked with dead old cars, over swollen brown rivers, through towns where businessmen affect three-piece suits the color of certain gaudy birds-the passengers being made tardier by the minute...
Next morning the visitors were taken to several schools in the region. At Lincoln High, moments before the Soviets arrived, the loudspeaker blared, "Students are reminded that our first responsibility is to make a favorable impression for our friends from the great country of Russia." On the front steps, Band Director Louis Oliverio had arrayed his finest musicians. He had worked feverishly to get the music to the Soviet national anthem, obtained it less than 24 hours before, and now the Cougar band got through it without a hitch...
...Others fought for civil rights in an age when the color barrier kept blacks out of state colleges and the World Series. Radicals lived on the barricades then: leading strikes, tangling with cops, even shipping out-3,200 of them in 1936-to fight against Franco as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Wasn't that a time...