Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...culture hipped on youth, face-lifting is becoming an economic survival tool. Says Robert Stevenson, 58, a New York corporate interior designer who does not want to be forced into retirement: "If you're a dynamo but have gray hair, you won't get the job." Uplift by scalpel is not to white-collar occupations, either. A surgeon says, "It is Mr. and Mrs. America who shop at K mart are getting face-liftings." New York cosmetic surgeons report a new class of patients - policemen, sanitation workers and truckers...
PROVIDENCE--With Mauro Keller-Sarmiento in his new role at center midfield, the Harvard men's soccer team finally got bacl on the track last night, scoring a 1-0 victory over Ivy rival Brown in Cliff Stevenson Stadium...
...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...
...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...