Word: virginia
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...been an overemphasis of the difficult side of his character: the spiky Freudian dimension, his relationship with Sally Hemmings, a mulatto slave who may have borne Jefferson seven children, his epic ambivalence toward blacks and slavery. Indeed, in his one full-length book, Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson was capable of declaring that Negroes were in their reason and imagination much inferior to whites and even that they smelled bad. Even so, he seems genuinely to have abominated slavery, and he expressed terrible premonitions: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
Notes on the State of Virginia, a response to a series of questions posed by the secretary of the French legation in Philadelphia, is a mixture of guidebook, history, scientific ledger, philosophical treatise, vindication of American nationalism and casual introduction to Jefferson's opinions on practically everything. The Notes and the 79 letters included here are the most compelling part of the Viking collection...
...VIRGINIA SPENCER CARR 600 pages. Doubleday...
Died. Richard P. Loving, 42, a Virginia construction worker whose marriage to his Indian-Negro childhood sweetheart led to a landmark civil rights ruling; in an auto accident; in Caroline County, Va. Routed from bed at 2 a.m. five weeks after their 1958 marriage, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in jail or 25 years of exile from the state for violating Virginia's antimiscegenation laws. After five hardscrabble years in Washington, D.C., they chose to return home and fight the statute, winning in 1967 the Supreme Court's ruling in Lovings v. Virginia that voided...
...Jamieson's successor as chair man and chief executive officer will be Exxon's current president, Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions." More...