Word: jefferson
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...19th century dissolve in war and recongeal into the recrimination and self doubt of the 20th. In contrast to the proud and noble self-image of the Victorian man, "our self-image looks more like Woody Allen or a character from Samuel Beckett," Tuchman declared in her 1980 Jefferson lecture. "It is a paradox of our time in the West that never have so many people been so relatively well off and never has society been more troubled...
...witty wife Clover left him lost in darkness. "Fate at last has smashed the life out of me," he wrote to a friend, "but for twelve years I had everything I most wanted on earth." He labored on to complete the nine volumes of his excellent history of the Jefferson years, then gave a verdict on his own life by burning all the diaries he had kept since college. "In the midst of gloom and depression I have come to the last page of my history," he wrote in one of the few diary fragments that somehow survived the incineration...
...Jefferson Park kids, observing the lack of talent of some of the couples, put on a small exhibition for couple #855, who appear sufficiently grateful to their diminutive coaches. Others pass the time by reading the newspaper to the strains of "Shake It Baby...
...halfway mark, an announcement that $13,000 has been raised provokes cheers from the dancers and the small contingent of Jefferson Park kids still present...
...Jefferson Park kids are still in good spirits even though they have been hanging out for almost nine hours. Twelve-year-old Henry Cabarea tells us, "These are wacko people, totally freaky...