Word: lincolnization
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...cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly unlikely subjects, transforming subtleties into iconic moments, as in his 1959 photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that a photographer like me can have is luck...
Ever since he launched his campaign in Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Obama has been happy to have himself compared with the original skinny outsider from Illinois. But as this race goes on, the image of another Illinois icon looms. The shape of the Pennsylvania electorate, and the prospect of a contentious convention, evokes 1952, when Adlai Stevenson--the darling of "every thinking person," as one woman later famously phrased it--captured a fiercely contested nomination by putting the urban and the urbane blocs together. But he never won over the white working class, and that's why there never...
...field of human values” are “one of the greatest intellectual traditions at Harvard,” Faust said in her introduction to Kushner’s speech. Kushner’s second lecture, focusing on film, anxiety and his new screenplay about Abraham Lincoln, is today at 4:30 in Lowell Lecture Hall. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...Well, South Pacific is finally back on Broadway, at Lincoln Center?s Vivian Beaumont theater in a new production directed by Bartlett Sher. The happy news is that its brilliance hasn?t faded. Indeed, the long absence may have made its many virtues shine brighter. With apologies to the Carousel and Oklahoma boosters (and the one or two who would throw in a vote for The King and I), I just might nominate South Pacific as the best of all the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. At the very least, it?s the one for adults...
...body the face of a toothless tiger. His threat has been domesticated, his danger sweetened. His depressions and wounds have been turned into waves and smiles. There is little suffering recalled, only light and glory. King's more challenging rhetoric has gone unemployed, left homeless in front of the Lincoln Memorial, blanketed in dream metaphors, feasting on leftovers of hope lite...