Word: jeffersonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Cochrane to Zorach. In their verbal war, both Kennedy and the bishops could draw deeply upon the obiter dicta of a Supreme Court that has carefully tried to serve the claims of two strong, and sometimes conflicting, principles. The first is the Jeffersonian "wall of separation between Church and State," the second, the modern-day belief that the "right" of all children to an education entitles any and all students to Government assistance on an equal basis...
There must be something better than more profit-seeking with social welfare appearing only as a by-product, Thomas claimed. Social work until recently has been small and "free-enterprise"; this Jeffersonian ideal of the small unit is impracticable and the Federal Government must often take a hand, he emphasized...
Born in the Eastern Region of Nigeria and educated at Oberlin and the University of Chicago, Essien U. Essien-Udom (literally, in Ibibio, Essien, the first son of Udom and grandson of Essien) has an almost Jeffersonian aversion to urbanization: "It is very important that we preserve the communities. In the village you're not just a part of the crowd, going to the theatre or whatever, anonymous; you can be a whole man....In my village if I saw someone ten times a day, we would shake hands ten times a day. If I came...