Word: lincolnitis
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...Domingo, en route to Manhattan from a place in the Andean clouds, has other priorities. The "mountain" in question is a 20-ft.-high, graffitied roadside outcropping identical to dozens of others between Newark Airport and the Lincoln Tunnel. The van's Anglo contingent is fairly sure that the rocky bluff has no name. Don Domingo consults perplexedly with his companions Don Martin, Don Nicolas, Don Andres, Don Hilario, Don Ascencio and Don Juan Gabriel. This place is stranger than they had imagined...
...whose real name is being withheld to protect his operation and Campaign Diary's wager) wonders what's the greater crime: a row-house palooka's supporting his family by offering a convenient alternative to government-run lottery bamboozles, or the fact that American public policy and the Lincoln Bedroom are for sale to the highest bidders...
...most cliche-ridden Presidents were also our greater ones. "Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years but by the lifetime of the human spirit," said Franklin Roosevelt. "Democracy," said Woodrow Wilson, "is more than a form of government. It is a form of character." Lincoln: "I hold that while man exists it is his duty to improve not only his own condition but to assist in ameliorating mankind." Lincoln was a supremely corny speaker--at least he would be so judged today. He began a noted speech at a battlefield with references to liberty...
...hard to find a Bush photo shot without minorities in the background. Last month Bush said apologetically to the N.A.A.C.P., "The party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln...
...CONTEMPLATE as you gaze at a tumor removed from the jaw of President Grover Cleveland, and the thorax of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, at the Mutter Museum...