Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Inaugural Evening at Ford's Theater." The gala reopening of Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., which has not seen a performance since April 14, 1865, when President Abraham Lincoln was shot there during a presentation of Our American Cousin. The invited audience will see Helen Hayes, Henry Fonda, Fredric March, Robert Ryan, Julie Harris, Odetta, Andy Williams, Harry Belafonte and others in performances keyed to Lincoln's love of the theater and the music...
...long way from Swan Lake, and it drew a few boos on opening night at Lincoln Center last week, but George Balanchine's new ballet is added proof of the inventiveness of the nation's No. 1 choreographer...
Brooks Brothers, the New York clothiers, makes a nifty set of threads, but $50,000 does seem a bit stiff. Nevertheless, a North Carolina woman named Marion J. Smith is asking that much for an 1865 Brooks Brothers frock coat and suit-namely the one worn by Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated. The coat came to Mrs. Smith via her grandfather, a White House doorkeeper who was given the clothes by Mary Todd Lincoln. Though the bidding is open to everyone, the National Park Service lusts for the frock coat for its Lincoln Museum in Washington's restored...
...Shaw's plays have taken his death badly. The scenes creak at the joints. The wit sputters more often than it fizzes. The characters seem alive from the neck up only. St. Joan has not been spared. In a conscientious but lethargic revival at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, the play drones on like a college seminar labeled "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Nationalism, 1412-1431." In the title role, Diana Sands is earth-bound but never God-intoxicated, more of a common scold than an uncommon saint...
...Price of Technology In 1846, Abraham Lincoln's friends raised a mere $200 to finance his race for Congress. After he won, Lincoln returned $199.25: he had canvassed the voters on his own horse and spent only 75?-to treat some farm hands to a barrel of cider. In 1860, Lincoln won the presidency without leaving Springfield or making a single speech; his entire national campaign cost $100,000-a sum now barely sufficient for one 30-minute national telecast...