Word: jefferson
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...Democrats formally adopted their present title in 1840 after being known as the Democratic-Republican Party. The organization actually goes back to the Virginia-New York axis formed before 1800 by Jefferson, Burr, Madison and Monroe...
...Great White Hope, by Howard Sackler, is a sprawling, episodic semi-documentary that traces the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first Negro heavyweight champion of the world. In the play he is called Jack Jefferson, and James Earl Jones roars through the role with the jungle magnetism and pride of a lion. In a concentrated off-Broadway apprenticeship, Jones often played a kind of jolly brown giant; here he plays an avenging black one. Jones is not the kind of actor who buries himself in a part. Instead, he devours the part and then radiates its presence...
...second Myth imparts a little less rosy glow to the South. This is the myth of the Redneck South, the South of Klan rallies, midnight lynchings, and torchlight processions. This dream has George Wallace as its star, not Thomas Jefferson. The supporting cast is made up of illiterate brutes and lumbering semi-humans who blindly destroy any thinking creature...
...Your excellent Essay [Sept. 20] concerning the failings of our Electoral College was most pointed, as far as it went. You cited three presidential elections, those of Jefferson-Burr, Clay-Adams-Jackson-Crawford and Hayes-Tilden, to illustrate your indictment of the college's utility. It is of interest that two of these elections and perhaps the course of American history were decided in each instance by the margin of a single vote. Adams won by the vote of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Hayes by the 8-to-7 vote of an electoral commission that awarded...
Jogginq Institutions. The sleeper is Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie.* In the western Pennsylvania city of Washington last week, Muskie gave an impressive display of coolness. For three minutes, he stood silently at the microphone in front of the county courthouse as some 40 students from Washington and Jefferson College yelled: "Stop the war! Stop the war!" When one screamed "Say something!" Muskie allowed: "Well, that's not a bad idea. If you will give me the chance, I will try." A student replied: "You have a chance...