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...hand with the efforts of Southerners to downplay the significance of slavery both for the war and for Lincoln, and blacks battled back by keeping slavery and Lincoln's image as the Great Emancipator at the forefront of the nation's memory." A common folktale in the mid--20th century South--which Leadbelly poignantly rendered in a song he recorded in the early 1940s--had Lincoln rising from the dead, coming down and bringing justice to the Jim Crow South...
Another reason Lincoln's writing ability was underrated was that his typically plain diction and straightforward expression were at odds with the public's expectations. The recognized standard for a statesmanlike address in mid--19th century America called for considerably more formality and pretension. The prose of acknowledged masters of that kind of writing--such as Lincoln's fellow orator at Gettysburg, Edward Everett, or Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner--generally featured elevated diction, self-consciously artful expression and a certain moral unction. Lincoln's insistence on direct and forthright language, by contrast, seemed "odd" or "peculiar," as in this...
...Dinner M-Th...
...Italy, a wealthy nation saturated with phones. Orascom's concept "is one of high growth in underpenetrated, low-income markets in the emerging world. Extending that footprint into mature, competitive developed markets changes the investment case in our view," frets István Máté-Tóth, analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, in a research note...
...color, with hand-held cameras, on location with no additional props, no soundtrack and no extra lighting. They should be set in the present - no genre films allowed - and the director should not be credited. In March 1995, when Von Trier was invited to Paris' Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe to speak at a celebration of 100 years of cinema, he took to the stage, read out the manifesto, tossed red pamphlets printed with The Vow of Chastity into the audience, and walked off. The Dogme 95 movement was born. A decade later, around...