Word: jeffersonism
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...some day to protest discrimination against women. Eight years passed; then Stanton, living in Seneca Falls, N.Y., heard that Mott was visiting near by. The two got together and decided to organize their meeting. As an agenda, Stanton boldly updated the Declaration of Independence as drafted by Thomas Jefferson. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," said the Stanton version, "that all men and women are created equal...
...half (28 ft. 7 in.) and turned to the 200-meter run. "I'm still a novice in the 200, as compared with the 100," he said, after burning through the curve in 19.86 and then kissing the track like an explorer. Kirk Baptiste and Thomas Jefferson, who finished second and third, expressed the situation clearly when Baptiste said, "I hope I can finish second in the Olympics," and Jefferson advised, "The closer you get to Carl, the better your chances will...
...querulous tone of this political year is also reflected in ads prepared by the National Republican Congressional Committee, in which portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson appear to weep over the purportedly high-handed tactics of the Democratic majority. The commercials, aired in Washington and on the Cable News Net work, accuse the Democrats of "bottling up" a Senate-passed crime-control bill and "falsifying congressional records." (A House Democratic staffer resigned last year after he admitted altering the remarks of G.O.P. members in hearing transcripts.) The Democrats had drawn first blood last month, when O'Neill ordered...
Maass says he is confident he can succeed as a scholar-farmer, a modern-day Thomas Jefferson, as it were. And indeed, in Wilson's words, Maass "is never unprepared--if this were baseball, he would be the runner who could never be caught off base...
...Jefferson school of etiquette still survives now, Martin said, adding that its influence on childraising has produced a lot of little savages...