Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential candidate in 1972. He addressed a group of Boston advertising people and branded as "madness" President Nixon's decision to carry the Viet Nam War across the border into Cambodia. He also kept his promise to the Boston Pops Orchestra to narrate Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait. The occasion was not without a touch of irony. The opening lines of the narrative quote Lincoln: "Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We . . . will be remembered in spite of ourselves...
...four-man race caused by the pre-Civil War split was won by Abraham Lincoln with 39.79% of the vote...
...Chicago." Another was said to have suggested abducting the Chicago Chief of Police with the words, "Let's kidnap the big cheese and take him to the amphitheatre." Froines himself was charged with a "stink bomb plot." Abbic Hoffman was charged with inciting to "fornication" in Lincoln Park. "We all know Abbic," Froines said. "Abbie never used the word 'fornication' in his life...
Dormann also began bumping into bona fide collectors, who were alarmed at his lack of expertise. A leading Lincoln scholar, Ralph Newman, who is a consultant to the Library of Congress, intervened at a time when the Johnson Administration was considering cooperating with Dormann. Newman warned the White House that Dormann "knew nothing whatsoever about the nature of the project he was attempting," and seemed to be using "our greatest office and name as a public relations device." As word of Newman's advice spread, Dormann discovered that neither Government officials nor university scholars would help him collect papers...
Flags and Chains. Though less overt than Chandler and the muralists, other young artists are painting or sculpting out of their sense of black identity. David Hammons, 26, of Los Angeles, well remembers his childhood in Springfield, Ill. The youngest of ten children of a welfare mother, he passed Lincoln's house every day on his way to school, which somehow relates to his fascination with the American flag. "I don't know whether it's the black skin against the bright colors or the irony of the flag being held by an oppressed people...