Word: jeffersonianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolutionary standards) decaying nations of Europe was required to stop the French Revolution. Before that time, the revolutionary armies in the name of the new order overran the Low Countries, invaded Egypt, threatened to invade England. Its fifth columns operated even in the U. S. (Citizens Genet and his Jeffersonian friends...
Southern Rebel. South of what was once the Mason and Dixon border, rebellion has been mixed up traditionally with conservatism rather than with reform. Lawrence Lee is a Jeffersonian Southerner, an Alabaman who went north to Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity...
...strength in the South, but it did not add up as yet to a single Southern vote for Willkie in the Electoral College. Whether such anti-New Deal sentiment will be converted into Willkie votes depends entirely on what sort of campaign Candidate Willkie puts up. He can talk Jeffersonian issues till his face is blue, but the chances are that the South will remain Democratic-unless he shows himself the kind of man to capture Southern imaginations. All that the South showed last week amounted to little more than a willingness to be wooed...
After evaluating what he said concerning "The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Education," we can only conclude with all due humility that he adequately summarized his address in his own words when he said, "I plead guilty at once of wishful thinking." To put it in the form of a quite useful philosophical argument, everything he advocated was "necessary but not sufficient...
...Conant's faith in an educational system reconstructed in conformity with the "three fundamentals of the Jeffersonian tradition"--freedom of mind, social mobility through education, and universal schooling--to achieve a casteless American society, "a society in which ideals of both personal liberty and social justice can be maintained" is a "good ideal" but of very doubtful practical application. A system of public education "resisting the distorting pressures of urbanized, industrial life" is "necessary." But it is not "sufficient...