Word: jefferson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Both showed a propensity to indulge in short term, demonstration-oriented politics. They sought to radicalize the nation by publishing Bantam pamphlets on the rights of Americans, by dredging up the most radical notions of our Founding Fathers (for small farms, against a standing army). But the days of Jefferson and Jackson were long over and the once infant country now grappled with the more complex issues of corporate dominance and the contradictions of capitalism. Radical faddism for all its short term benefits served more to fuel the conservative backlash than accomplish any real change...
Agriculture is the "first priority in the economy" of Vietnam, Nguyen Van Hieu, director of the Institute of Physics in Hanoi, told a group of 40 at Jefferson Hall yesterday...
...SEVENTIES have been rough on the great rock bands of the sixties. The Stones stopped rolling, falling in to a stultifying disco beat; the Grateful Dead waxed and waned depending on the quality of their high; the Jefferson Airplane took off for the stars, finding commercial success but artistic failure. The Beatles, of course, never made it into this decade, and individually they've only embarrassed themselves and us. Here in 1978, the old jokes about aging rockers just don't seem funny anymore...
Visual Cortex: Where Theory Meets Experiment in the Central Nervous System--Leon Cooper, Brown, Jefferson...
...Jefferson might have found a way. In that same 1801 letter in which he answered critics about his absences from Washington, he noted that George Washington had set the example by taking August and September off. "Grumble who will," he said, "I will never pass those two months on tide-water...