Word: kefauveritis
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The South's irrational and intransigent attitude can be traced to its own feelings of persecution vis-à-vis Washington. Men like Eastland owe their political lives to the hatreds this situation has evoked. The best answer is to oppose the dark (Eastland) image of the South with a...
¶ Received, from a Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency (Estes Kefauver, chairman), a report declaring that violent movies are potential "triggers" for juvenile delinquency. ¶ Learned, to its general surprise, that John Maragon, a crony of Harry Truman's cronies who was convicted of perjury in 1951 in connection...
After the great defeat in Minnesota, Adlai Stevenson said he was "just plain mad"; before last week was out, it became increasingly doubtful that Stevenson could be either plain or mad. Against the wishes of some of his California campaign chiefs, he canceled his planned vacation in the South and...
Early in the attempt to copy the Kefauver technique (see following pages), it was clear that Adlai Stevenson was not enjoying it. His irritation at his unusual role kept breaking out. When newsmen crowded into a dressing room as a makeup man powdered his face and pate for a Los...
As he Kefauvered along, Stevenson used a defensive offense. He abandoned his difficult technique of making a different speech at every stop, and stuck to one line. Its main point was a denial of the Kefauver argument that Stevenson is the candidate of party "bosses." Stevenson called the charge "false...