Word: stevenson
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...DOLL'S HOUSE (PBS, March 29, 9 p.m. on most stations). Ibsen's war-horse gets a powerful, unpatronizing new production in this Masterpiece Theater import. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) perfectly calibrates Nora's progress from docile wife to proto-feminist, and Trevor Eve avoids easy caricature as her husband Torvald. Superb...
...oafish exterior. But when he scorns the American "foreign policy elite" for sniffing at Yeltsin because the Russian might not know which fork to use at a state banquet, he is rather obviously settling some old personal scores, and when he calls Mikhail Gorbachev "a Soviet version of Adlai Stevenson," he does not mean it as a compliment...
...irascible Harry S Truman was hammered by Estes Kefauver in New Hampshire and faced an even stronger challenge from Adlai E. Stevenson, forcing Truman to call it quits. LBJ met the same fate in 1968 when "Clean" Gene McCarthy captured 42 percent of the vote in New Hampshire, giving Robert F. Kennedy '48 a reason to drop his hat into the ring...
...National System of Educational Assessment for the U.S.: Some Lessons from Abroad--David Stevenson, deputy director of the National Council on Educational Standards and Testing. Eliot-Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall...
...Brightest, "at best he was cool and cautious and not about to rush ahead of events or the current political climate by calling for changes in the almost glacierlike quality of the Cold War." He won a reputation, as a journalist put it admiringly in 1960, as "a Stevenson with balls." With him came a whole coterie of equally tough young advisors, proud to call themselves hard-nosed realists, including the likes of McGeorge Bundy, Robert McNamara and Maxwell Taylor...