Word: lincolnitis
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...Boston debate, his puffing and childish distortions of the truth) or the dangerous vacuity of George W. Bush, who has failed for most of his life to exhibit the seriousness or the intellectual curiosity a citizen should expect in a candidate aspiring to move into the house where Jefferson, Lincoln and the Roosevelts lived...
...sure, the mood is leavened by the jaunty opener, "Lincoln Town," and the gleeful abandon of "Gone" (Gone/like a Nixon file/gone, gone away/Gone/like my landlord's smile/gone, gone away"), but the overall atmosphere is one of resigned deconstruction. These are almost anti-sermons; there's a kind of fatalistic work ethic in evidence throughout, but in this lonesome congregation titles like "Take It Down," "Take It Back" and "Lift Every Stone" are exhortations to bear witness to unhappiness, not salvation. It takes the unabashed spiritualism of "God's Golden Eyes" and "Before I Go" at the album's conclusion...
...worthy people are destined for defeat, what does that make of the winners? This question hums throughout Vidal's historical series, particularly as it applies to the biggest winners, U.S. Presidents. Burr casts both Jefferson and George Washington in a harsh light. Lincoln portrays its protagonist as almost diabolically unknowable in his use of power; Empire makes merry with the boisterously ambitious Theodore Roosevelt. Vidal's fiction strives mightily to transform the faces on the Mount Rushmore monument into rubble and scree...
...earth may be not as generous, richly diverse or hospitable as it has been in centuries past. What right do we have to threaten the existence of other species? Who are we to selfishly deprive future generations of the gifts of the earth? JANICE H. IANNELLI DI TOSTO Lincoln Park...
...starting with a $100,000 contribution to the Presidential Inauguration Committee in 1992. Occidental is further reported to have forked over $50,000 in soft money after a phone solicitation from Gore in 1996 and a further $100,000 after Irani spent two nights in the Lincoln Bedroom that same year...