Word: springfields
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...theater seats tremble, and cannon bursts rock the room as a Civil War battle is played out on multiple moving screens that bob up and down. Welcome to the just opened Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Springfield, Ill.--or, as historian John Simon derisively calls it, "Six Flags over Lincoln." The museum, which is scheduled to have its public dedication this week, has weathered years of cost complaints, construction snafus and accusations of mismanagement. Now the museum is open for visitors--and for debate over whether it has done justice to the 16th President or turned him into a theme...
...good. However, I question the way Reagan was portrayed by members of his staff as a sort of Superman because he seemed to recover so quickly. I fear it is a disservice to imply that major surgery is a minor inconvenience that requires only minimal recuperation. Paula S. Richardson Springfield...
...afternoon Charles was scheduled to take a spin around the Library of Congress with the noted scholar and Librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, who would show the Prince some original manuscripts relating to the Constitution. Diana, meanwhile, planned to accompany Nancy to Straight, a drug-rehabilitation center in Springfield, Va. Like stylish clothes and a penchant for being elegantly thin, concern about drug abuse is something the two women have in common...
While the Lampoon-heavy writing staff of “The Simpsons” make generous use of Harvardian allusions (the curator of the Springfield Historical Society is named Hollis Hurlbut), Schur says he doesn’t rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective...
...media have done a credible job of informing the public. But when news organizations provide hijackers with international exposure, which could pressure the President into negotiating with them, it is time Congress considers the question of whether the press is aiding and a betting our enemies. Alva E. Koch Springfield...