Word: jeffersonism
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...asked, "What's the bag limit this year?" after his Pacific task force sank two Japanese cruisers in 1943 in the first battle use of ocean-going radar, outspokenly opposed armed forces unification in 1946, retired from the Navy in 1947 and became president of Mississippi's Jefferson Military College; of cancer; in Natchez, Miss...
...Thomas Jefferson once said that France was every American's second country. The sentiment has a strangely parochial sound to the contemporary U.S. ear. Since World War II, every American's second country has been the world. In Athens and Tokyo, in Addis Ababa and Zanzibar, there is sure to be an American-quiet or noisy, ugly or handsome, but always as insatiably curious as his camera...
...trend is "involvementism," and the most startling part of it is a sharp turn to the political right. As Editor Peter Stuart of the Michigan Daily puts it: "The signs point to a revival of interest in individualism and decentralization of power-principles espoused by John Locke and Thomas Jefferson and rekindled by Senator Barry Goldwater." Items...
...Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Nothin' much happened. Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked in, but way up there those far-away old stars are still doing their old cosmic crisscross, and there ain't a thing we can do about it. It's pretty quiet now. Folk hereabouts get to bed early, those that can still walk. Down behind the morgue a few of the young people are roastin' a nigger over an open fire...
...first by his own consent put himself under that government." While St. Robert Bellarmine is entitled to the greatest credit for his unpopular thesis in those days that the authority of the Pope over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual, this is not nearly as important to Jefferson and Madison as John Locke and the Puritan revolution...