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...tendency of the Supreme Court to legislate as well as to annul laws because of alleged violation of the Constitution has in the past caused Congress to reverse decisions of that court many times. No wonder Jefferson predicted that we will be governed by a judicial oligarchy with the threat of impeachment a mere scarecrow...
...Johns Hopkins' Kemp Malone, 67, brother of Biographer Dumas (Jefferson and His Time) Malone and himself a top authority on Old English literature. Because of his musical ear and his knowledge of phonetics, scholarly Kemp Malone could charm his classes by making the Canterbury Tales sound as if Chaucer himself were reading them. He could also terrify his students by storming at them over the slightest mistranslation. He continually failed to recognize even the brightest English majors, seldom entertained his colleagues, seemed to have an ingrained aversion to lunch at the faculty club. But for all his crotchets...
...world-famed architect was no easy problem for Eero Saarinen. He had to win through to a style of his own. First clear-cut sign that he was going to be something more than just the son of a famous father was the national competition for the St. Louis Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in 1948. The elder Saarinen submitted a formal monumental design; Eero's entry was an audacious, 590-ft. stainless-steel arch that looked like a giant, glistening croquet wicket-which he had conceived while bending a wire and wool pipe cleaner. A telegram announced Eliel...
...Jefferson & Jackson. The first slave to be sold on what was to become U.S. soil, Furnas says, landed at Jamestown in 1619, a full year before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. The early settlers saw nothing immoral in slavery, since many a white was himself an indentured servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration...
...legally recognized in the South. One Kentucky minister with auction-block separations in mind amended the words in slave weddings to "till death or distance do you part." Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse...