Word: jefferson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Maximus occupies a squat one-story brick building that stands in the shadows of the Jefferson Towers apartment complex, a 15-minute walk from the Quad...
This immortal phrase encourages self-delusions such as: "Watching Baywatch is good for me because it allows me to most thoroughly absorb and understand exactly what Jefferson meant by the pursuit of happiness" or "Staying in the dining room so that none of my friends eat alone will teach me what Baumol and Blinder mean when they talk of consumers with different tastes and preferences...
...quadrennial immersion in the ridiculous that is the American election campaign tends to overshadow the occasional eruption of the sublime in our national life. Yet three such eruptions have occurred this year. All three will be remembered long after the name William Jefferson Clinton (let alone Dick Morris) has taken its historical place alongside Rutherford B. Hayes. All three are independent enterprises. Yet all three, remarkably, point in the same stunning direction--to the existence of life in space...
...strangely serene and businesslike display of exultation. Shortly after midnight in Little Rock, Arkansas, having achieved what seemed the inevitable, William Jefferson Clinton stood in the glow of his happy hometown crowd as only the seventh Democratic President to be elected to a second term, and began, "My fellow Americans, we have work to do, and that's what this election is all about." He must have used the word work two dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation...
...slightly more popular and liberal of the two parties, used his first term to defuse social and regional antagonisms and supported banks and business in a way that made it impossible for the conservative Federalists to rally opposition to his policies. Thus the first party system of Federalists like Jefferson and Hamilton had all but disintegrated, and a new one, slowly coming into being, would explode in the Age of Andrew Jackson...