Word: jeffersonism
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...commonwealth of Virginia is justly proud of its past. Virginia gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, of whom three-Washington, Jefferson and Madison-were the muscle, the heart and the mind of the Republic. Yet in its homage to history, Virginia has become increasingly a cult of the past, a temple of Shintoism in the U.S. In this sense Virginia is indeed less a geographical state than a state of mind, and the power of its longtime modern-day leader rests, as one of his aides said last week, on the fact that "Harry Byrd usually stands for what most...
...palace revolution by invoking the spirit of his people. In Hungary it was the people themselves who spoke. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...exhibit a later version.) In only 30 inches of width, Yale's picture contains 48 portrait figures, all grouped naturally and convincingly in a manner suited to the solemn occasion. Among them, at the table before John Hancock, stand John Adams, Roger Sherman. Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The painting is a set piece, but Trumbull succeeded in conveying something of its suppressed excitement in the zigzag arrangement of heads and the winglike banners at the back...
Though Trumbull eventually turned to business and hack portraiture to support his declining years, he could well boast, in a letter to Jefferson, of "having borne personally a humble part in the great events which I was to describe...
...wake of the firing of County Health Officer Deborah Coggins for lunching with a Negro nurse in a white restaurant (TIME, Oct. 8), Florida's Jefferson County school board added its own unsavory sequel to the story: it ordered Fifth-Grade Teacher Flo Way to resign after she defended Dr. Coggins at a public meeting. But Teacher Way was carrying on as usual. "I feel I have the right to free speech." said...