Word: jeffersonism
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...class conflict, Manhattan Book Dealer Henry ("Chip") Chafetz views it in terms of Lady Chance. How did an Indian squaw pick her brave? By how good a gambler he was; otherwise she and the kids might find themselves the pawns of a sharper peach-stone roller. What did Thomas Jefferson meditate on while composing the Declaration of Independence? His losses at backgammon, cards and lotto. Who caused the Great Chicago Fire? Not Mrs. O'Leary's cow but Mrs. O'Leary's crap-shooting son, who was rolling the bones in the barn when an opponent...
...prove that this amounted to Communism and treason, the prosecution called an "expert" from the University of Cape Town. But defense attorneys succeeded in discrediting him by getting him to identify quotations from Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther. John Milton and Thomas Jefferson as the "sort of statements that Communists make." All in all, their testimony piled up to 7,000,000 words, and the defendants logged 20,500 miles commuting on what they dubbed the "treason bus" from their homes in Johannesburg to the courthouse in the smaller city of Pretoria (where the trial was held to avoid demonstrations...
University of Virginia, founded as institution by Thomas Jefferson, provision for the erection of chapels that attendance by the service of their particular would be expected, Cort . If this is not inconsistent with , then certainly aid to schools is not, he maintained...
...place cannot be found in the gazetteer (those who confuse it with Thomas Jefferson's home will be very confused indeed), but it can be visited five days a week at 4:30 p.m. E.S.T. on CBS. The network and the ad agency of Benton & Bowles, which hold joint fief over Monticello's doom-prone citizens, regard it with loyal affection: it is the mythical locale of TV's most merciless soap opera. The Edge of Night, the greatest hypnotic to appear since the video tube nudged the U.S. housewife away from radio's Stella Dallas...
...attan Center upheld a different age. They called themselves ng Americans for Freedom," their posters honored Senator y Goldwater, who would key- their meeting. Their ideology with in a some kind of God, in al rights, and in classical ecocs, combined with nationalist ments -- is familiar indeed: egacy of Jefferson, of Hoover, aft. . . and a bit of McCarthy. The generally thinks of their as "conservative," yet in a the Young Americans For dom are radicals. For they ad, in effect, a fundamental re-ruction of present institutions, ing them into accord with cer- philosophical notions. Manhat- Center...