Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this demands an examination of the phenomenon. Resisting war, in forms that range from high-minded idealism down to the most scurrilous draft-dodging, is a perennial U.S. custom. Many Americans, including Abraham Lincoln, were embarrassed to the point of bitter protest at their country's jumping on Mexico in 1846; rioting draft evaders set part of Manhattan afire during the Civil War. Even draft-card burning is nothing new: Critic Dwight Macdonald put the flame...
...Restaurants were deflated, and the food stands themselves were prepared for the bulldozer. The motorless Fords and Mercurys at the Ford Pavilion were packed away on car trailers and shipped off to Detroit, where the company will add the motors, sell them to employees at cut rates. The talking Lincoln statue from the Illinois Pavilion was carefully crated, sent by moving van to Disneyland...
...team is young but battle-tested, paced by four juniors including center-half Doug Adams and right-halfback Lincoln Platt. As they used to say in Brooklyn, "Walt 'til next year...
Brazil faces "the risk of an electoral orgy" next year if the elections are based on popular vote, Lincoln Gordon '34, United States ambassador to Brazil, told the Dunster House Forum last night...
Within these broad bounds, a Republican comeback begins to seem plausible. By and large, the national Republican Party still holds to Lincoln's thesis: "In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere." Today, as in Lincoln's time publican emphasis is based on a faith in the individual's right to go as far and as high as he can within the limits ot his own abilities; the Republican credo includes a certain freedom from government interference in that effort. Yet modern Republicanism also recognizes, as Lincoln...