Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Historically, Rusk was not obliged to make even that concession. U.S. Pres idents have frequently ignored congressional advice when it seemed necessary or convenient to do so. Lincoln ran the Civil War far more highhandedly than Lyndon Johnson has ever operated in Viet Nam, and Franklin Roosevelt in effect launched lend-lease, virtually committing the U.S. to active involvement in World War II, three years before asking Congress to vote...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...
...precise enough to rule out opposing theories that differ in small but significant details. Now a new technique has been used to check out Einstein: interplanetary radar. Preliminary radar tests also have failed to find a flaw in general relativity, a scientist from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory announced last week, and radar soon should provide results accurate enough to help confirm the theory-or to seriously undermine...
...Gates was written in 1935, the shadow of Hitler fell across the world and darkened the significance of Jean Giraudoux' drama. In its first U.S. production in 1955, the menace of McCarthyism seemed to be echoed in the play. Doubtless the mentors of Manhattan's Lincoln Center now see this tragic confrontation between the Greeks and the Trojans as a cautionary parable of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, though the analogy is wrenchingly sophomoric. The sad fact is that Tiger cannot carry its own dramatic weight, let alone the added burden of historical allusion. It suffers from...
...love are to language," he stayed mostly within the bounds of traditional harmony, building up solid forms that were infused with ruddy Nordic vigor and romantic lyricism. Last week, conducting the New York Philharmonic in the world première of his Sixth Symphony at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, Hanson, 71, made his case again...