Word: lincolnization
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Ongoing. Old Lincoln School, 194 Boylston Street, Brookline MA 02245. Tickets at the American Repertory Theatre or call...
Agnieszka Marczak, LINCOLN...
...Lincoln's assassination initiated an even more long-lasting tribute to Moses, the Statue of Liberty, given to America by the French to honor the slain President. The sculptor, Frédéric Bartholdi, chose the goddess of liberty as his model, but he enhanced her with two icons from Moses: the nimbus of light around her head and the tablet in her arms, both from the moment Moses descends Mount Sinai with the Ten Commandments. The message: Freedom comes with...
...took America's most Bible-quoting President to reunite the country. Called a pharaoh by his opponents, Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves after a "vow before God"; he invoked the Exodus at Gettysburg. When he died, Lincoln, like Washington before him, was compared to Moses. "There is no historic figure more noble than that of the Jewish lawgiver," Henry Ward Beecher eulogized. "There is scarcely another event in history more touching than his death." Until now. "Again a great leader of the people has passed through toil, sorrow, battle and war, and come near to the promised land of peace...
Rick Takach, president of Vesta Hospitality, who recently spent $200,000 renovating a Holiday Inn in Lincoln, Neb., says he's grabbed market share every month since the April debut. The Washington-based owner, whose 11-hotel portfolio also includes Hiltons and a Marriott, has a happier staff, and the relaunch has given him a shot at recapturing lost clients...