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...JEFF JEFFERSON...
Erikson said yesterday that he was pleased with the award and that it would give him time to do research. Erikson said that he had not yet decided the topic of the lectures, but he said he was doing some reading on Thomas Jefferson, for whom the lectureship was named...
Erikson was selected from among 200 nominees suggested by educational and professional organizations, Erikson said he knew of his award since the first Jefferson Lecture Series last April, given by Lionel Trilling, the Norton Professor of Poetry...
...business of turning the founding fathers into a crew of periwigged chorus boys has been accomplished with all due seriousness. Like the hit Broadway show on which it is faithfully based, the movie has a cozy smugness that removes all challenge from the ideas of, say, Adams and Jefferson (Tom Paine is mentioned once-quickly), and it makes an uprising against oppression seem as radical as a meeting of Jaycees...
...lieu of characterization, Scenarist Stone (Charade, Father Goose) furnishes each prominent member of the congress with a quirk or a foible by which he will be easily recognizable, if not quite human. Thus John Adams (William Daniels) is a prig, Jefferson (Ken Howard) a love-smitten daydreamer, Franklin (Howard Da Silva) a convivial pragmatist, and so on. The actors seize on these poor scraps and work them to death, although they should probably be commended for not breaking into giggles over such Stone dialogue as "Better get yourself down to Congress, Mr. Adams" or "Reconciliation my ass-the people want...