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...sustain the morale and support of the American people to fight as long as necessary, and to give them the aims of the war which they believe in, so they're willing to continue to sacrifice until those aims are met. That's why Lincoln's address at Gettysburg was so central. It gave people, in such soaring language, the idea that these young men who had died had not died in vain. In World War II, there was a consensus over what had to be done in fighting Hitler and fascism. Now people are not sure...
...Chinese leader since Mao Zedong. Hu's predecessor Jiang Zemin spent his early years in Shanghai, China's most cosmopolitan city, studied in the Soviet Union and reveled in his trips overseas; he was proud of his ability to recite from memory chunks of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. By contrast, Hu studied only in China and spent much of his career in its remote, impoverished western provinces. Jiang "liked to make jokes" with his foreign hosts, says Chu Shulong, a professor at Beijing's Tsinghua University. "Hu doesn't make jokes. He's pretty practical...
...cigars as well as the serenading of young ladies,” according to the orchestra’s website. Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait” incorporates text of several of the 16th president’s letters and speeches—including the Gettysburg address. A long list of dignitaries has narrated public performances of the “Portrait” in the past, ranging from former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to U.S. Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., who appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in September. Tickets for the HRO?...
...that reportage with cameras was practiced steadily from the 1850s; he includes Roger Fenton and his panoramas of British soldiers on maneuvers during the Crimean War and one of Alexander Gardner's "staged" photographs - he was not above placing a rifle next to a corpse for dramatic effect - from Gettysburg. And Witness does not make fussy distinctions between "art" photography and "news" photography. Social documentarians Lewis Hine and Dorothea Lange mingle with Gilles Peress, James Nachtwey and Luc Delahaye, who made their names on battlefronts during the 1980s and '90s. Nachtwey's picture of a man staring...
Dolphins, dogs and primates are the usual suspects when scientists talk about higher mental functions, but fairness, at least, extends even deeper into the lower animal kingdom. If you watch rats wrestle, says Stephen Siviy, a psychologist at Gettysburg College, you'll see that the bigger rat lets the smaller rat win every now and then so that the smaller rat will keep playing. That, he says, could be interpreted as a sense of fair play, although he emphasizes that a rat's behavior is probably Darwinian--based not on thoughtful consideration but on what has worked in the past...