Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beranek is the acoustician who designed Philharmonic Hall at New York's Lincoln Center. He spent four years planning what should be the country's leading concert hall, yet critics keep saying that he created an acoustical dud. See MUSIC...
...atmosphere. Whether it's because Dean Griswold's description of the omnipresence of law was taken as a directive by first-year students or because everyone realizes he's now professional school--that it's for the subject of law is everywhere in the dorms, at Harkness Commons, at Lincoln's Inn (a student restaurant-social club), and even at parties...
...reprises had all been sung, the cast yelled and the producer, the publicity manager, the chief choreographer, the director, and the chairman of the whole thing (Diane Sawyer), trooped onstage. The audience applauded, the cast cheered, and the four little old alumnae who had driven in from Lincoln and were sitting across the aisle from me began...
...Many of the most popular displays will be used elsewhere by their owners. Though wreckers will get the Johnson's Wax pavilion, the company intends to continue showing its splendid film, To Be Alive, perhaps at its Racine headquarters. Walt Disney will take back his electronic, talking Abe Lincoln from the Illinois pavilion, his moving cavemen from Ford, and his thousands of gay puppets from Pepsi-Cola's lively "Small World"; all will probably appear in Disneyland.' Though the Fair's wax museum has optioned its four mop-topped Beatles to a Cleveland customer...
During the next 25 years, Robert Emmet Sherwood became successively a well-known movie and book reviewer, magazine editor, script doctor, playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night) and speechwriter to President Roosevelt. In this effusive biography, Critic John Mason Brown leans heavily on the lighter side. The reader hears all about Sherwood's sensational buck and wing, his low-keyed Algonquin witticisms, his red-eyed passion for high-stakes poker, model airplanes, and croquet in Central Park at $10 a wicket. Unhappily, Biographer Brown requires 386 pages to take his subject...