Word: adlai
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...Gore Vidal, resonates with today’s negative politics, as it dramatizes several candidates’ efforts to smear and outmaneuver their opponents behind the scenes of a political convention. Vidal criticized both ends of the political spectrum, basing her Machiavellian politicos on real-life figures ranging from Adlai Stevenson to Barry Goldwater...
...fact, a good half of them serve as election judges, which makes them the lynchpin of the entire electoral process, a thought that’s both reassuring and mildly alarming. I met a woman who has voted for the Democrat in every presidential election since Adlai Stevenson, which is very impressive and a little sad, because what party really deserves that kind of loyalty? And really, who wants to lose that often? Then I saw myself in the mirror and wondered if I have fifty years of voting for losing Democrats to look...
FATHER FIGURE Few Presidents have been bald. The last was Dwight D. Eisenhower. Luckily, he ran both times against another chrome dome, Adlai Stevenson...
...McGovern in waiting? Just how much of a Bill Clinton can John Edwards be? Could Bush go the way of his father? My personal favorite is an emerging parlor game about whether this year could have a perfect storm of primaries that would return us to the days of Adlai Stevenson, when the party’s nominee was not determined until the convention itself...
...first-year climbed a tree in the winter of 1953 and refused to come down until the Corporation made Eliot House Master John Finley the president of the University. Another student suggested Adlai Stevenson, the failed presidental candidate, would be the ideal replacement...