Word: jacksonian
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Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger '38, who attended GSAS as a junior fellow in the non-degree granting Society of Fellows, said that because of the flexibility of his program, he was able to conduct his research in ideas and politics in Jacksonian America unfettered. Schlesinger served as special assistant to former President John F. Kennedy...
Last week in Memphis, during her first campaign appearance with Jesse Jackson, Ferraro left the versifying to him, but her cadences and declarative oomph seemed markedly Jacksonian...
...planners' hope is to get all the controversy settled in an atmosphere of reasonable civility before Jackson mounts the podium on Tuesday night to deliver what is certain to be a rousing and rhythmic speech. The occasion will serve as a rare prime-time showcase for the free-verse Jacksonian oratory that stirred predominantly black audiences to near frenzy during the primary campaign...
Hart is throwing out tantalizing hints of a Stop-Mondale alliance with Jesse Jackson "between June 6 and the convention." He is even starting to speak in Jacksonian cadence and rhyme. Said Hart in Albuquerque last week: "Ronald Reagan wants women only behind ironing boards; I think they should be members of the board . . . they should have more say and they should have more...
Similarly, Santayana observed that Yale was more "American" In fact, throughout its first two centuries. Yale had a more geographic diversity. The less affluent New Haven had no equivalent of the Boston Brahmin and hence was less status conscious. It was hardly a Jacksonian democracy, but it was more open than Harvard. Sociologist David Riesman (Harvard '33) describes the differences during his undergraduate days, writing that at Yale, membership in secret societies was based on personal characteristics, but "at Harvard, it was ascribed not achieved. No matter how much of a lout you were you could get in a final...