Word: jeffersonism
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...Past Jefferson lecturers, who hold their appointments for a year, were Robert Penn Warren, Erik H. Erikson and Lionel Trilling...
...National Endowment for the Humanities announced today that it has chosen Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, as Jefferson Lecturer for the year...
According to Dabney, the report that Jefferson had fathered the children was spread in a newspaper article in 1802 by one James T. Callender, whom Dabney described as "a vicious unscrupulous drunkard" who was angry at President Jefferson for refusing to appoint him postmaster at Richmond. An Ohio newspaper revived this charge in 1873, citing what Dabney termed the "testimony of two aged blacks." Historian Malone called the testimony a contrived bit of "abolitionist propaganda...
Serpent's Glance. The most solid evidence, according to Dabney, is that there were mulattoes at Monticello and some were related to Jefferson-but were fathered by Jefferson's father-in-law John Wayles and two nephews. The liaisons of the nephews with two of the Jefferson servants, Sally and Betsey Hemings, thus resulted in children who bore a likeness to Jefferson. While most of the evidence refuting the Jefferson paternity is noted by Brodie the historians complain that she dismissed it in her "obsession" with the mulatto question...
Burstyn has a face that belongs above a Peter Pan collar, and a figure that deserves decolletage. Like Alice, she is a single woman raising a young son alone. (She has been divorced since 1969. Jefferson Burstyn, 13, appears briefly in the film as the kid next door.) Alice, says Burstyn, "is a woman grappling with the change of consciousness we are all grappling with. I'm just further along in the grapple-a little older and wiser than Alice...