Word: jeffersonism
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...Senator Samuel J. Ervin Jr. looks and sounds like the quintessential Southern Congressman. Jowls drooping and eyebrows cascading, he drawls tall tales about good ole boys back home in hill-country North Carolina. In rambling Senate speeches, he quotes the Bible, Jefferson and Kipling; he opposes most civil rights bills and accuses the Supreme Court of killing the Constitution's meaning by "verbicide." But for all his Claghornian pomp and ceremony, Sam Ervin is no archetypal Southern reactionary. He is in fact one of the Senate's ablest civil libertarians...
...1960s reverberated to rock. The walloping folk rock of Bob Dylan sang a striking counterpoint to the sweet-sour, sometimes thunderous eloquence of the Beatles at their best; the psychedelic star shells launched by the Jefferson Airplane soared over the Beelzebub beat and leer of the Rolling Stones. And now, suddenly, the '70s have brought a startling change. Over the last year a far gentler variety of rock sound has begun to soothe the land...
James Kardon must have had a riot writing the script. It's wild and fanciful, unfettered by plot or logic. The dialogue is a great mish-mash of half-digested morsels from Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Coleridge, Jefferson Airplane, the Beatles and whatever else was floating through Kardon's consciousness as he held pen in hand. The mysterious phrase that serves as title pops up again and again, meaning nothing in particular but continually teasing the audience...
...know modern democracy is to know something at least of Jefferson, though you may not have read him; to learn to respect freedom of speech or the rights of the private conscience is not to be wholly ignorant of the "Areopagitica" or the "Antigone," though you may know nothing about them...
...from the campus for more than a year, the Grand Jury made much of the fact that any other organization could be accredited to use University facilities without prior political screenings. The Administration had even, it charged, allowed a rock concert by "a rock music group known as the 'Jefferson Airplane'" at which slide projectors had shown shots of the Guardsmen firing at the students...