Word: adlai
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Nothing better illustrates TIME'S inflexible political position than its [Aug. 27] paragraphs describing the presidential candidates: from President Eisenhower came "the clear tones of a political leader turning squarely to the future" while TIME found Adlai "scurrying from caucus room to caucus room." We can be wearily certain that had Eisenhower had to solicit delegate support he would have "strode vigorously" in quest...
...Democratic campaign bounced merrily and fruitfully through the week-as Maine voters rolled up their victory and Democratic dollars rolled heavily into the campaign fund-but the party's chief candidate conversely seemed to be having his troubles. It was characteristic of Adlai Stevenson's week that whenever he loosened up and turned on the charm, he was a snappy hit; but before TV cameras and big audiences Adlai sadly sagged...
...Best." Yet the onstage Adlai was in comparatively dull fettle. In Albany he devoted three pages of a five-page speech in homage to New York's roster of eminent Democrats (Roosevelt, Lehman, Al Smith), not neglecting recent foes Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio. Nor was his attack on the Eisenhower Administration any more resounding than the calling of the roll: a "false front" administration, he called it, where Eisenhower appointees were undercutting programs, e.g., public housing, conservation, which had progressed under the Democratic administrations. Many a New York Democratic conventioneer sat on his hands...
Back in Manhattan Adlai fared better in a speech before a meeting of New York's Liberal Party, the highly sophisticated audience that Stevenson is most at home with. (Said Adlai: "An exceedingly responsive audience, one of the best.") Here Stevenson let loose with penetrating wit and fine oratorical style, twitted the Republicans for contradictory statements (on neutralism, the meaning of Russia's reduction of its army, the importance of the Suez crisis), came out foursquare for compliance with the Supreme Court decision on segregation...
...slick program opener: a film clip of the famed Joe Smith incident at the Republican Convention (TIME. Sept. 3), followed by the filmed excerpt of Stevenson's postnomination speech calling for an open race for the vice-presidential nomination. Later, straining to put himself across in person, Adlai threw a wild punch when he declared that "the President is not master in his own house," implied that the country was being run by Richard Nixon and the Eisenhower Cabinet. Only when he strayed onto subjects dealing with his own political idealism did Stevenson sound like himself. "Our plan...