Word: jeffersonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State. As you go from an important embassy to a well-known columnist's, to the Sulgrave Club and a chic Georgetown house, any Washingtonian will know in advance which Supreme Court, Cabinet and Senate couples might be encountered. Cave dwellers seem to prefer conservatives; high average I.Q.s, Jeffersonian Democrats...
...Jefferson* to the late, great Adolph Simon Ochs, Sulzberger's father-in-law and father (1896-1935) of the modern New York Times. Sulzberger himself suggested the inscription: "Dedicated to the memory of Adolph S. Ochs . . . who by the example of a responsible press enlarged and fortified the Jeffersonian concept of a free press...
...society, which was just about where Karl Marx had stood. When his espousal of Socialism brought him the title of "the Red Professor," Laski retorted: "The devil [i.e., Laski] is not as red as he is painted. His evil-minded Socialism is nothing more than the logical development of Jeffersonian democracy in the 20th Century...
...really don't think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest and anxious to see a decent world before I die." It is fairly certain that Harold Laski considered that wish unfulfilled by the world as it was when he died last week. Jeffersonian-Marxist Harold Laski, for all his brilliance, had never made it quite clear what he considered a decent world...