Word: jacksonians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Worth's Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1951, was assigned to Japan, spent two years learning the language. Last fall a group of U.S. military people, calling themselves the Southern Baptist Military Fellowship, asked Jackson to help them organize an English-speaking Baptist church in Tokyo. The Jacksonian result: a whirlwind of preaching, fund-raising and organizing, topped by ground-breaking ceremonies with a brass band from the U.S.A.F.'s 41st Air Division. For the full-scale Tokyo revival Jackson is organizing along with the new church, he plans to spend $200,000 in advertising...
Time was when a change in political administrations meant bad news for the status quo, as new people and new policies descended on the seats of government. But in these calm days of courtesy and bi-partisanship, the old Jacksonian gusto seems to have been eclipsed by the politics of gentility. Nevertheless, the show must go on, if only to amuse the faithful. And this showmanship has been no-where more apparent recently than on Beacon Hill during the last two months, as the young Democratic Hercules, Foster Furcolo, waves his imaginary broom through the marble corridors of Boston...
Professor Perry Miller, who delights in refuting this myth, remembers when Schlesinger was "a shy little sophomore drama critic taking orders from seniors on the Advocate." Miller tutored Schlesinger when he wrote his summa thesis on the radical Jacksonian reformer Orestes Brownson, but "I was really only a nominal tutor," Miller says, "since Arthur's first drafts seldom needed any revision." The thesis was published as a book shortly after his graduation. "If you plan to write a book, college is the best time," according to Schlesinger. "You'll never again have so much free time or be so innocent...
...Harvard invited him as an associate professor, he probably hesitated to risk his personal identity by continuing his family's tradition of Scholarship. Walter Bradford Cannon, his wife's father, was a noted medical researcher and professor of Physiology at Harvard. His mother is related to George Bancroft, a Jacksonian politician and outstanding historian of his day. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Francis Lee Higginson Professor, emeritus, is considered America's first great social historian. Before his son returned to Harvard, the elder Schlesinger lectured on "The Social and Intellectual History of the United States," but after his son joined...
...first in a series of radio programs written by Perry G.E. Miller, Professor of American Literature, on the Jacksonian period of American history will be broadcast on radio station WGBH-FM at 9:30 p.m. tomorrow. Entitled "They Bent Our Ear," the programs tell of the reactions of various European visitors to the United States...