Word: jeffersonism
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...clock last Tuesday morning in Philadelphia, Virginia delegate Thomas Jefferson looked out at the gray sky and then noted that his thermometer registered 70°. Soon afterward, there came a bolt of lightning and a sudden deluge. By 9 o'clock, the city was awash. Nearly 50 delegates to the Second Continental Congress slowly filled the meeting room of the State House on Walnut Street... The room steamed. The only consolation in keeping the windows closed against rain was that they also excluded the horseflies from a nearby stable...
...begins the cover story on Thomas Jefferson in the most unusual issue that TIME has ever published. It is our Bicentennial issue dated July 4, 1776, and devoted to reporting the birth of a new nation just as if TIME reporters had been there. After almost a year of exhaustive work, the 1776 issue is going to newsstands and subscribers this week - the first time in our history that two different issues have appeared simultaneously. Under the supervision of Senior Editor Otto Friedrich, a staff of 14 researchers headed by Nancy Williams culled mountains of memoirs, letters and contemporary news...
...Among the nonjournalistic winners: Playwright Edward Albee for his drama Seascape; Novelist Michael Shaara for his book The Killer Angels; Biographer Robert A. Caro for his epic The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York; and Historian Dumas Malone for his first five volumes of Jefferson and His Times...
...estimates that by printing 450 million two-spots a year, the Bureau could cut its $1 bill output in half and save $4 million. Conlon suggests leaving Thomas Jefferson on the face of the bill and engraving a Bicentennial theme on the back. The American Revolution Bicentennial Administration has endorsed the idea, and the Federal Reserve Board has commissioned the Harvard Business School to conduct a marketing survey of the $2 bill's public acceptability...
...expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed," Thomas Jefferson wrote. Our commitments must be to action, and we cannot expect it to be easy action. It will take all our energy, all our compassion, all our strength. We will need determination and faith, for truly it is our mission on earth, Without those, we are lost, but with them the big payoff and final reward will dwarf the millions that the selfish have hoarded and heal the divisiveness and the wounds already seared. It is our duty together, and together we must begin...