Word: jeffersonian
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...Amherst, Mass. For close to 70 years, Commager's essays, books and meditations probed the nation's politics and psyche. A teacher for 65 years, Commager wrote books that served as lucid primers for generations of students. An early and vocal opponent of Senator Joseph McCarthy, Commager embraced the Jeffersonian view that given adequate information, Americans would ultimately use common sense to make informed decisions...
...estimated to involve 250,000 children worldwide. On land mines, however, State Department spokesman James P. Rubin stepped up to the plate, insisting that the U.S. spends more money and effort than all other nations combined on finding and destroying mines, and calling America "a beacon for human rights." Jeffersonian rhetoric aside, by abstaining from yesterday's treaty Washington is finding its claim to global leadership on human rights increasingly under fire...
...been able to purchase the kind of publicity that you provided for them. In any case, there are several good reasons for keeping McDonald's out of Harvard Square. You may try to dismiss these arguments as the expressions of an elitist sentiment, but many of them draw from Jeffersonian democratic ideals, as well as a number of traditions that are more compelling than your consumerist apologies...
...programs are booked up for 1997, all promise to inspire. (The subscribed programs' sponsors may have other offerings, and there's always next summer.) We've invited a variety of notables to share their memories of seminal childhood summers--and asked education analyst John E. Chubb to reconsider the Jeffersonian belief in "the inestimable value of the intellectual pleasures," meaning more school time for kids in summer. Happy vacation...
...city councilman, an ambassador to the U.N., and Deputy Housing Secretary under Jack Kemp. The son of a meat packer and a practical nurse, Blackwell was a Democrat growing up but switched parties in the 1980s. His conversion was driven in part by what he said is a "basic Jeffersonian" distrust of bureaucracies. "Doomsday," he said, "is the day we get all the government...