Word: adlai
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...Adlai Stevenson can turn an apter phrase than anyone else in sight. It is easier to make epigrams, though, than to make the decisions required of a President. Stevenson does not give the impression of being particularly decisive. He might weigh his decisions so carefully as never to make any; our late foreign policy on China seemed to be conducted in this way. We "waited for the dust to settle" for so long that in the end we did nothing. Stevenson seems to have no clear idea of how far the American people will follow political leadership...
Democrats was united in support of Adlai E. Stevenson in a poll of 826 Law School students yesterday, but Republicans split badly among six candidates. The Presidential preference survey, conducted by the Law School Young Democratic Club, assumed that President Eisenhower would not seek reelections...
...problems of what to say, and how to say it, and when, were agonizing for Adlai Stevenson. He had been brooding about this ever since that disastrous night of defeat in 1952, when he said that he was "too old to cry, and it hurt too much to laugh." As he traveled about the U.S. in 1954, speaking at Democratic rallies, loyal supporters urged him to try again. By the end of last summer he had made the decision: he would...
...Adlai thought of making a simple statement that he was a candidate, but that might seem too wholly political. Perhaps he should explain, in a dignified manner, why he was running. And yet he did not want to skim the cream off his first post-announcement speech at the dinner. For two days, at his farm home in Libertyville, Ill., he labored over his pronouncement. Most of the time he worked alone, but on the second day he called in staff members and tried the statement on them. He decided it would not do, went to work on it again...
...defied Massachusetts law by publicly buying a copy of the banned novel Strange Fruit. He raged at New Dealers for thinking the people "too dumb to know what is best for them," but he hated "the Old Guard minds" among Republicans and became one of Adlai Stevenson's top campaign writers. He said that Ernest Hemingway's characters were "anthropoids," that those of Dos Passes were "diminished marionettes." He cham pioned Pareto, James Farrell and Robert Frost, denounced Van Wyck Brooks, Thomas Wolfe and practically everyone else. Of modern Western women he said: "I should like to call...