Word: jeffersonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Teeny hoppers and overaged juveniles, surfers and Hell's Angels, high school dropouts and stay-ins alike, pile in by the thousands to writhe to the electronic thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque...
...centuries ago, when a Hambro sea captain got word that the Queen of Denmark had died in Paris; he promptly cornered the market for crape in Copenhagen. Britain's Baring banking clan made a great leap forward by arranging an $11,250,000 bond issue for Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. The Rothschilds of Paris and London grew to prominence by smuggling millions in gold through Napoleon's line to Wellington's forces in Spain. Such are the foundations of the fortunes of the most prosperous and least known of all businessmen, the merchant bankers...
...quality" of "my loyal opposition," allowed after all that maybe the press had not done so badly by him either. "I've not taken the prize about the mean things they said about Presidents," he told the Senators. "I've read the things they said about Jefferson and Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy...
...JEFFERSON AIRPLANE TAKES OFF (RCA Victor). Jefferson Airplane, as everyone in San Francisco ought to know by now, is not a flying machine but five men and a girl, powered only by the usual assortment of guitars and drums. They are billed as producers of a jet-age sound which, in spite of its high-voltage twang, can be disarmingly gentle and folk-flavored. Their best ballad, Come Up the Years, celebrates the sorrows of a too-old lover so sweetly as to suggest that he may be about 15 and his girl...
...George Washington had slaves. His life was saved once by a little black girl. Thomas Jefferson, though he drafted the Declaration of Independence, had slaves. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation from economic motives...