Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCARTHY has been concentrating on the primary in Nebraska, a cautions farm state which could be expected to reject an eastern millionaire. McCarthy seems to be trailing however. Most of the state's 120,000 Democrats live in Omaha and Lincoln, and 15,000 of them turned out to greet Kennedy in Lincoln last week...
...Kennedy and Johnson, Lincoln 10. The English, Frost...
Great streamers of acrid smoke, drifting from blazing shops in Washington's commercial center, twisted among the cherry blossoms near the Lincoln Memorial, where five years earlier Martin Luther King had proclaimed his vision of black and white harmony. Fires crackled three blocks from the White House, and from the air the capital looked like a bombed city. A three-mile reach of Chicago's Negro West Side erupted in pillage and cataclysmic flames that left an eight-block area in a state of devastation as severe as that of Detroit's ghetto last summer...
Pinnacle & Hint. By now, King was swamped with speaking engagements, whose peak perhaps was his peroration at the Lincoln Memorial. "I have a dream!" he cried, and it seemed his dream was becoming reality. King reached the pinnacle in 1964, when he received the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the 14th American, third Negro and youngest man to win the award...
...American orators, black or white, could match I the sonorous, soul-stirring resonances of Martin Luther King Jr. From his early sermons to his letter from a Birmingham jail, from the epic address at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1963 March on Washington to his acceptance speech at the Nobel ceremonies, King's rhetoric rang richly with both the ageless cadences of Negro spirituals and the moral immediacy of the civil rights struggle. His voice was for his time and beyond...