Word: adlai
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...knew little about American society and politics. What they knew was mostly from movies. It was a distant land. But the name of [President Franklin] Roosevelt evoked a positive reaction among all democratic Greeks. I was impressed with the openness of American society. I admired people like Adlai Stevenson: he was my friend and I was his representative in Minnesota. Later I had close contacts with the advisers of President Kennedy. I personally have a great deal of gratitude for the chance given me [in the U.S.] to grow up as a scientist and professor. Not only is my wife...
...heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson and Carl Sandburg among its readers. A typical satirical proposal: the Golden Vertical Negro Plan to install stand-up desks in public schools because Southerners seemed averse only to sitting, not standing, next to blacks...
...them to hold forth on the Jefferson-Hamilton debates, the 14th Amendment, Marbury v. Madison, or any of the historical events that defined America's ideological bent. Ronald Reagan may be our most obviously unintellectual leader, but he is not alone; you'd probably have to go back to Adlai Stevenson to find a national politician well-versed in national culture and literature and able to articulate a coherent philosophy without pandering. And Stevenson's tendency to sermonize and orate over people's heads probably disqualifies him, too, as even approaching Rousseau's ideal of a foresighted and persuasive leader...
...even he can't seem to figure out whom he is supposed to be. And Pleasance looks thoroughly embarrassed by his fate, as he lugs his fleshy body across the screen. (Question #1: Why is it that the people who play the President in movies always look like Adlai Stevenson? Question #2: If Adlai looked so much like a president, why did he always lose...
...explaining what the story is really about. At last, the sound picks up a snippet of the speaker's own words. This irritating parody of on-the-scene coverage is being overused by the networks. Coverage as confrontation has another effect, says a greatly troubled Senator Adlai Stevenson III: "It excludes the third or fourth choice." Stevenson gave up his Senate seat, disenchanted, among other reasons, because "the media makes and breaks the politicians . . . It is the nation's most powerful and least accountable institution . . . It establishes the issues, and then reduces them to simple and sometimes meaningless...