Word: jeffersonism
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Stepping deftly from the example of Jefferson--who responded to this libel by sending one of the learned French gentlemen a stuffed black panther and a live moose--to the more general case, Commager suggested some of the effects of the fray for American history...
...PERRY COMO HOLIDAY SPECIAL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Perry's 20th anniversary as a TV headliner is bolstered by the presence of Rowan and Martin, the Jefferson Airplane, Bobbie Gentry, and Sergio Mendes and Brasil...
Preaching passion of both the metaphysical and physical order, The Doors have a style at once more plaintive and dramatic than the droning, hypnotic waves of sound poured out by other West Coast groups such as the Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. They startle and bemuse with a uniquely mournful and moody tone that shades Morrison's dusky voice seamlessly into a dark-textured background: the haunting organ, piano and bass of Ray Manzarek, 24; the sinuous guitar of Robby Krieger, 21; the nimble drums of John Densmore...
...only was Coolidge a summa cumlaude Harvard graduate in history, a scholar in international affairs, and a planner of Widener Library, but he was also a great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson...
...very fact that the U.S. was a nation only in name produced a fervent drive to create national symbols that sometimes obscured Jefferson's aspirations. The drive was fueled by waves of immigrants rushing to a virgin continent that offered fabulous opportunities for self-advancement. The gold-rush spirit animated Americanism, the country's unestablished religion. The whole public-school system was aimed at Americanization. Noah Webster's spelling book taught American English to Germans, Poles, Swedes, Italians-and declared that "Europe is grown old in folly, corruption and tyranny." Geography was American, and America was bigger...