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...garb seemed a bit forced. Post-World War II history has conditioned Americans to think of men like John Adams and Patrick Henry as politically stodgy as they appear in pictures in American history books, with their long powdered wigs and tight-fitting puritanical breeches. Our image of Thomas Jefferson, with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative of American independence, becomes confounded with the image of American leaders like Dwight...
Between bouts of reporting this week's Nation story on Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, Correspondent Jack White of our Atlanta bureau flew to Jefferson City, Mo., to accept the Unity in Media award from Lincoln University for the TIME team that produced last year's cover story on "America's Rising Black Middle Class" (TIME, June 17). The award-for journalism that betters human relations-is shared by Senior Editor Marshall Loeb, Associate Editor Edwin Warner, Staff Writer Ivan Webster, Reporter-Researcher Sarah Bedell, White and San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce...
...Bicentennial celebration officially began on March 1. It promises to be a gigantic birthday bash that will involve millions of Americans, from the largest cities to the tiniest hamlets, and spawn thousands of speeches, parades, pageants, school plays, fairs, exhibitions, TV shows, postage stamps, buttons, T shirts and Jefferson knows what else before the party officially ends...
...without overtime pay, and private donations of $70,000 rescued some of the cultural programs. That barely put a dent in the board's $4 million deficit, but Rock Impresario Bill Graham may yet save the day. He has scheduled a benefit concert of ten major acts (including the Jefferson Starship, Joan Baez and Santana) in the city's 59,626-seat Kezar Stadium. The concert, on March 23, is called SNACK, Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks; the audience will pay a $5 admission to boogie down from midmorning to dusk. In addition, Graham will sell special SNACK...
...group of about 200 or 300 cultural leaders throughout the United States offer nominations for the Jefferson Lecture. The National Council of the Humanities, composed of 26 presidential appointees, makes the final decision on the choice of a lecturer. At the time of Freund's selection, council members included Edward H. Levi, former president of the University of Chicago and present attorney general, Hanash Gray, provost of Yale, and Martin I. Kihon, professor of Government...