Word: jeffersonism
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...documents from their days in office as their own, taking them home with them on leaving office. In the 19th century, the Government had to pay nearly $200,000 to get back some of the papers that were in the hands of various descendants of Washington, the two Adamses, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe...
...Gribbs had ordered a "dimout" of Christmas lighting, and has been severely criticized for it. Groused Councilman David Eberhard: "This town needs some joy. If we turn off the color, the sparkle, the life, then we're a dead city." To conserve electricity, the small town of Jefferson, Iowa, stilled the carillon bells that pealed hymns and patriotic music...
...range well and chances are he'll describe Adams as a mountain which hikers worship: Washington is too commercial and can be reached too easily, Clay and the lesser known peaks are too non-descript. Madison and Monroe have large Appalachain Mountain Club Huts on their sides, and Jefferson is too much like the Alps. But Adams is different...
...fiction anymore: larger-than-life heroes like Washington are no longer very appealing. To turn a villian into a hero of today's world-historical audience, the modern technique involves showing the basic humanity of the culprit while simultaneously debunking the old heroes. So Vidal's Burr endlessly derides Jefferson for his hypocritical dishonesty, Washington for his sanctimonious self-righteousness, Hamilton for his arrogant aristocratic-leanings. And this Burr is a man of his times--intoxicated by the Napoleonic vision of his era, but hardly to be faulted for being a product of his period...
ACORN and the farmers of Jefferson County, Arkansas, are offering Harvard, as the largest shareholder of Middle South Utilities, the choice of either acting in the interests of the people of Arkansas, or of acting in the interests of those whose only desire is to make money at the expense of the people of Arkansas. Harvard, which side will you choose...