Word: jeffersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quadrennial immersion in the ridiculous that is the American election campaign tends to overshadow the occasional eruption of the sublime in our national life. Yet three such eruptions have occurred this year. All three will be remembered long after the name William Jefferson Clinton (let alone Dick Morris) has taken its historical place alongside Rutherford B. Hayes. All three are independent enterprises. Yet all three, remarkably, point in the same stunning direction--to the existence of life in space...
...strangely serene and businesslike display of exultation. Shortly after midnight in Little Rock, Arkansas, having achieved what seemed the inevitable, William Jefferson Clinton stood in the glow of his happy hometown crowd as only the seventh Democratic President to be elected to a second term, and began, "My fellow Americans, we have work to do, and that's what this election is all about." He must have used the word work two dozen times in his short speech, which concluded with, "Tomorrow we greet the dawn and begin our work anew"--as if six long months of a nation...
...slightly more popular and liberal of the two parties, used his first term to defuse social and regional antagonisms and supported banks and business in a way that made it impossible for the conservative Federalists to rally opposition to his policies. Thus the first party system of Federalists like Jefferson and Hamilton had all but disintegrated, and a new one, slowly coming into being, would explode in the Age of Andrew Jackson...
...Promised Land, and The American Experience keeps turning out high-quality work after eight seasons. The History Channel, launched in January 1995, is one of the fastest-growing networks on cable. Burns himself is juggling several new projects, including a series of historical profiles (the first, on Thomas Jefferson, will air in February) and a 12 1/2-hour history of jazz, and he wants to set up workshops in his hometown of Walpole, New Hampshire, to help aspiring Ken Burnses learn everything from fund raising to "how we work with scholars and how we adjudicate very thorny issues of historical 'fact...
...scandal is that it crystallizes a struggle that has been going on for years in the American cultural-political conscience. The dispute occurs at the point where the mess of personal character and ambition and expedient need runs into history, principle or public ridicule. Dick Morris' adventures at the Jefferson Hotel--though meaningless in themselves, and pretty funny, if you are feeling savage--are damaging because they connect in the American mind to larger questions of public trust. Doing so, they ensure that the manipulative cynicism of politicians has produced an ultimately more dangerous cynicism in the public...