Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D-Ill.) got fed up with the Senate, with President Carter, with politics in general and decided not to run for re-election, he probably did not realize the Republicans would win Illinois...
...Mansfield, the year in which the nominating process worked most effectively was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were "two high-caliber candidates chosen by high-level party officials, not primaries." Wilson agrees, adding that it and the 1948 Truman-Dewey contest "were elections in which both parties picked their strongest candidates," thanks to the influence of party officials...
Nabokov's faith in the transforming magic of an artist's style leads him to overrate the beautifully written blarney of Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the same token, he somewhat underrates Jane Austen, who, despite her "pert, precise and polished" prose, is so deeply rooted in the quotidian that he misses her enchantment. Yet he celebrates his own aesthetic, the "capacity to wonder at trifles," with an ardor that is irresistible. "These asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness," he maintains...
...whacks, I'll thump," vowed Democrat Alan Dixon early in his race against Republican Dave O'Neal for the Illinois Senate seat being vacated by Adlai Stevenson III, who is retiring. So far, Dixon has kept his word, and the contest has turned into a name-calling slugfest...
Steel sees Lippmann as a man determined to be close to power and never too far in front of public opinion. Lippmann was flattered when President-elect Kennedy came calling to ask advice on picking a Secretary of State (when Kennedy would not accept Adlai Stevenson, it was Lippmann who persuaded Stevenson to take the lesser job of U.N. representative). Lyndon Johnson also gave Lippmann what Steel calls "the famous treatment: telephone calls for advice, birthday gifts, private lunches at the White House, invitations to state dinners," until Lippmann turned against the Viet Nam War and was denounced...