Word: lincolnization
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...When Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was first proposed, in the mid-1950s, it was imagined as a sort of island of culture in the midst of Manhattan - a symphony hall, an opera house, a theater and a stage for ballet, all standing back a bit in their travertine glory from a neighborhood on the Upper West Side that still had some very rough edges...
Even before he took office, Obama was being compared to Abraham Lincoln and other historic leaders. Are those kinds of expectations fair? (see the portraits of Abraham Lincoln...
...cannot overstate the degree to which media exaggeration has become part of the modern presidency - the saturation coverage and saturation punditry. The irony is, no one in March 1933 knew FDR was going to be FDR. And Lincoln - hell, his election prompted seven southern states to secede. So they both had the advantage, if you want to call it that, of being underestimated. (Read the commentary on the ghost...
...last word on Abraham Lincoln appears on a wall above the marker, engraved in dark marble. "Now he belongs to the ages." Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war, said it when his leader died at dawn on an April day in 1865. But it is never and nowhere more true than in Springfield on the day you make your visit...
...portraits of Abraham Lincoln...