Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even he can't seem to figure out whom he is supposed to be. And Pleasance looks thoroughly embarrassed by his fate, as he lugs his fleshy body across the screen. (Question #1: Why is it that the people who play the President in movies always look like Adlai Stevenson? Question #2: If Adlai looked so much like a president, why did he always lose...
...explaining what the story is really about. At last, the sound picks up a snippet of the speaker's own words. This irritating parody of on-the-scene coverage is being overused by the networks. Coverage as confrontation has another effect, says a greatly troubled Senator Adlai Stevenson III: "It excludes the third or fourth choice." Stevenson gave up his Senate seat, disenchanted, among other reasons, because "the media makes and breaks the politicians . . . It is the nation's most powerful and least accountable institution . . . It establishes the issues, and then reduces them to simple and sometimes meaningless...
...legends. Gangster Albert Anastasia must have commandeered a photographer's studio for a week to achieve his straw-hatted, natty, top-lit look, which is that of a matinee idol portraying a gangster. Perhaps the best pure photography in the show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson gave a photo to a fellow passenger on an ocean liner that meets Weston's dictum: it lays open a vital and engaging face. A forefinger of his clasped hands points outward like a conductor's baton, and intelligence, so rarely...
There was no doubt who was the political spokesman for the serious and intellectual college student of the 1950s. "Adlai Stevenson was the looming personification of the set of values we thought we were describing--humor, understanding, knowledge, lack of bombast," Rosenthal says. The senator's image as a sincere, but firm, peacemaker was echoed in the concern of many Harvard students who followed their education with stints in government service...
...wrote speeches for both Adlai Stevenson's presidential campaign and served as ambassador to India under President Kennedy (a resident of Winthrop House in the 1930s, when Galbraith was a tutor there). Not surprisingly, a life of this variety yields a wealth of anecdotes and portraits told in his characteristicly elegant manner. Galbraith's insights into the characters of the famous men of the era are few, but he profiles several lesser-known individuals to delightful effect. Henry Dennison, a maverick New England business mogul of the 1930s and Leon Henderson, Galbraith's Hemmingwayesque superior at the OPA stand...