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INVENTING AMERICA: JEFFERSON'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE by Garry Wills; Doubleday; 398 pages...
...18th century man, all calibration and catalogue, seems shaded by sinister, unscientific paradoxes. Thomas Jefferson proclaimed a "self-evident" truth that all men are created equal and yet owned slaves and may have kept one as his mistress for years; he was an aristocrat and elitist who was implicated in the most democratic enterprise the world had ever attempted: a sweet violinist of the manor who could write georgic poetry about revolution and blood...
...problem, writes Garry Wills, usually lies not in Jefferson but in the anachronistic way that Americans have understood him and his greatest work, the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration, argues Wills, "is written in the lost language of the Enlightenment." It has passed through 202 years embalmed and misinterpreted, a sacred text enshrined in an ark of incomprehension. "The best way to honor the spirit of Jefferson," begins the historian, "is to use his doubting intelligence again on his own text...
...mile run was won by 17-year-old Julie Nolan of Jefferson High School. Sport is, and will remain, part of her life. "I've been running since the fifth or sixth grade. I want to run in college and then run in marathons." She admires Marathoner Miki Gorman, who ran her fastest when she was in her 40s. "That's what I'd like to be doing," she says. Asked if she has been treated differently since she got involved in sports, this once-and-future athlete seemed perplexed: "I don't know, because I've always been...
...Overseers, who were elected by members of the Associated Harvard Alumni to six-year terms, are: Albert V. Casey '43, president of American Airlines; Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. '54, chairman of Back-Bay-Orient Enterprises and a prominent figure in American-Korean trade relations; Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, president of Atlantic Richfield, one of the nation's largest oil companies; Rilbert D. Storey '58, a partner in the Ohio law firm of Burke, Haber and Berick; and Frank Stanton, former president of the Columbia Broadcasting System...