Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extremely insulted that Abrams suggests that we disassociate ourselves from people who have a message for us, even if a small portion of that message may be offensive to him. After all, do Americans fail to honor Thomas Jefferson and George Washington because they were slave owners? And are Americans "out-raged" or "embarrassed and shocked" by the statements of such celebrated individuals as David Hume, who wrote, "I'm apt to suspect the negroes...to be naturally inferior to whites," or Immanuel Kant, who wrote, "The Negroes of Africa have by nature no feeling that rises above the trifling...
...plan was beaverish: to walk, sniff, conn and brood every one of the county's 12 central grids, 744 sq. mi. on the U.S. Geological Survey maps. With much satisfaction, he reports it was Thomas Jefferson who directed that all of the nation except the already mapped East be ruled into grids, never mind natural or political borders. "Chase County sleeps north-south or east- west," he digresses (if that is possible in a project that depends on serendipity), "the square rooms squared with the world, the decumbent folk like an accountant's figures neatly between ruled lines, their slumber...
...Harvard sophomore has taken a year off to work at the Thomas Jefferson Center, a local organization which creates community service programs in Somerville schools. And on top of this, the young student has decided to run for a seat on the Somerville School Committee...
Giannino says, "I love politics and I love helping people," and insists that his endeavor is just a continuation of past community involvement. While at Harvard, the undergrad says he was an active member of Phillips Brooks House (PBH). He has worked at the Thomas Jefferson Forum since his senior year of high school...
Like most obvious secular explanations, this one is shallow. American churches don't just passively receive ideas from the general culture. They also stimulate them. (Thomas Jefferson wrote about the "wall of separation" between church and state in a letter to a group of Baptist political allies.) If America's pews ring with debate about America's bedrooms, that is because the churches have their own reasons for grappling with the subject...