Word: jeffersonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...department of physics has received $310,800, Kenneth T. Bainbridge, department chairman, said. The funds will go to modernize the older sections of the Jeffersonian Laboratory, to buy now instructional equipment for elementary physics courses, and to establish the Morris Loeb Lectureship. Bainbridge said there will be at least one Loeb lecturer for a full semester each year, and if funds permit, additional lectures, who will reside at the University for a period of several weeks and give lectures both in advanced areas of physics and in topics of interest to the undergraduate body as a whole...
WHRB also plans to present a series of 13 broadcasts entitled "The Jeffersonian Heritage"; Clande Rains will star in the programs, which present "the dramatized ideas which are the enduring possessions of all Americans and all free peoples," according to the sponsor's advertisement...
...Party), and mostly because he found God. Because he found God, the author comes to the startling conclusion that the Western world, in a fearful state of crisis, must choose between "irreconcilable opposites--God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism." By that reasoning, thinking along Jeffersonian lines, which would involve faith in Man, Mind, and Freedom, would be impossible. And yet anybody knows that it is not impossible. Chambers errs in his assumption that Communism is the logical conclusion of 18th century faith in man. Communism does not build up man, rather it sucks him into a movement...
...quiet press conference on Capitol Hill, Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell announced that he is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Said he: "I am a Jeffersonian Democrat who believes in the greatest practicable degree of local self-government." Would he support Harry Truman if the President is nominated? "I shall not answer that until he is and I see the platform," said straightforward Dick Russell. "... I have never been one of those men who say vote the Democratic ticket even if it destroys my country...
...much more interesting at the end of The Confident Years, when he launches a major attack on the "religion of art," of which he considers Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot the high priests. Modern writing, as Brooks sees it, is split between the "religion of art" and the Jeffersonian tradition; Eliot and Pound have sneered at the Jeffersonians, who have tried, for their part, to realize "the vision of a good life and world that had sprung from the Enlightenment and the age of revolutions." That Pound and Eliot are gifted poets, Brooks does not question. He insists, however...