Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...standing on the balcony of his posh eighth-floor apartment in Arlington, Virginia. He waves an arm through the air. "Some view, huh?" he says in his famed Brooklyn baritone. Some view: first the Potomac River, then a panorama of marble. Directly ahead, in a precise line, are the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol. To the left is the Kennedy Center; to the right, the Jefferson Memorial. From his balcony King can also see the Watergate apartments, the home of his childhood friend Herbie Cohen, a successful lawyer and consultant. King used to tell a story about...
...spectacles -- the Sister Souljah nonsense a few months ago, the Vice President of the U.S. wagging his finger at hallucinations of the popular culture, denouncing Murphy Brown, or telling the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour, "I will continue to speak out against Ice-T," as if he were preparing for the Lincoln-Douglas debates -- there is something both confused and vaguely degrading. Something unworthy and a little stupid. Here is American history deterios. A homemade videotape could burn down a large section of Los Angeles. The videotape told a story: Los Angeles cops hit Rodney King on the head and, doing...
...misses the point to say that Murphy Brown is not a real character. Fiction is real enough in its powers. When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, he said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." That, at least, is the legend. Little Eva perhaps belongs to a higher order of symbolism than Murphy Brown's baby, but the simple principle, the power of stories, remains the same...
...gained notoriety over the past year as scientists sought to answer lingering questions about two U.S. Presidents. Researchers dug up the remains of Zachary Taylor to see whether he was poisoned; they determined that he wasn't. Another investigator wanted to study DNA from the autopsy remains of Abraham Lincoln to find out whether he had Marfan syndrome, an inherited disease that causes victims to be taller than average and have long arms, fingers and toes. After a lengthy debate, an expert panel concluded that the study should be postponed until researchers know more about the gene that causes...
Republicans got some wicked comfort noting that for more than a century, Democrats have been kidnapping Lincoln without credit. Historian David Donald wrote an essay in 1951 on "Getting Right with Lincoln," detailing how Presidents in trouble had claimed kinship. Franklin Roosevelt once suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. This season Truman quotes have been manufactured and mangled, while his prepolitical identity is often shortened to "dirt farmer." There is a suspicion that very few have studied McCullough's splendid text, particularly the first part. Bush admitted he jumped over some of that and went straight...