Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Which Richard Nixon? Friends, enemies and those in between could not agree. They never could before. In a generally sympathetic biography nine years ago, Earl Mazo found in Nixon a "paradoxical combination of qualities that bring to mind Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Joe McCarthy." The intervening years have polished Nixon and made him well-to-do, but they have not simplified him. He can still sound like the high-minded statesman and act like the cunning politico. He can talk eloquently of ideals and yet seem always preoccupied with tactics. He can plink out Let Me Call...
...know what's going on in the world," and that posters are one way to keep the man in the street posted. Her program got under way in 1961, when the List family foundation made a grant of $200,000 to New York's Lincoln Center to pay for well-known artists to design more elaborate posters than might otherwise have been used. Soon, requests for quality posters began pouring in from colleges, museums and other institutions. To meet the rising demand, Mrs. List last fall joined with Boston Art Dealers Barbara Krakow and Portia Harcus...
Although the work baffled some and bemused others, it had a cohesive rhythm of its own, and it succeeded in gripping the attention of the Tanglewood audience through its sheer theatrical flair. Silverman, 30, is music director of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and an evangelist for a new form of music-theater. As a former student of Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud, he has a solid background in "pure" classical composition. But, he says, "I wanted to get into pop music and rock. I can do this much better than the other stuff. Musical comedy...
That clocking would have rated Weissmuller nothing but a spectator's seat at last week's National A.A.U. championships in Lincoln, Neb., where tads the size of his beloved Cheetah smashed five world and eleven meet records. And when they did not break records, they logged times that would have crushed Johnny at his best. Like Mark Spitz, 18, who splashed off with the 100-meter freestyle...
...industry's only car with air conditioning as a standard item. The new version is wider and four inches longer than the 1968 model, adding up to a full-size equivalent of Ford and Chevrolet. A.M.C. hopes that new grille and taillight treatment, a sculptured hood à la Lincoln Continental and a dashboard that would do credit to a Boeing 707 will boost the Ambassador. Currently, 1968-model sales are running slightly behind the 1967 level...