Word: lincolnization
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Historians sometimes divide the Presidents into three categories under the names of the three archetypical Chief Executives. James Buchanan, Lincoln's predecessor, was the formalist who administered but did not lead the country. Lincoln was the heroic leader whose stewardship was passionate, argumentative and highly political. Grover Cleveland was a mixture of the two, not moving forward at a rapid rate, but not stepping very far backward either, expending just enough energy, in Hyman's words, "to maintain the existing kinetic equilibrium...
Following Cleveland. The new President will not follow Buchanan; he is too energetic and committed for that. At the same time, he seems temperamentally incapable of the high-key style of a Lincoln or a Franklin Roosevelt, whose presidency, as Historian Clinton Rossiter notes, was characterized by "his airy eagerness to meet the age head-on." Instead, Nixon seems to view his office much as Cleveland did, and will probably work to push the country in the direction that he thinks it ought to go-with his foot poised between the brake and the accelerator...
Inner Journey--Hardly great, but still an interesting play by James Hanley. Jules Irving directed and the redoubtable Michael Dunn is in the cast. At THE FORUM, Lincoln Center, W. 65th...
Last year's squad won the Ivy and Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball titles with a 16-7 overall record, and represented District I in the NCAA World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. Much of the credit for that outstanding season went to pitchers Ray Peters, Bob Dorwart, and Bob Lincoln...
...Lincoln Fiberglass Inc. has found that the Coop has a most sporting clientele. Last year the Coop sold more of the company's fiberglass sailboats than any comparable store in the Boston area, explained department manager Roscoe W. Fitts Jr. This year they hope to launch their canoe among the Cambridge outdoorsy...