Word: stevensonian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unlike her Republican parents, Alice, who traveled to Russia last year in the party with Adlai Stevenson, an old family friend, considers herself "a Stevensonian Democrat," but adds: "My political views are probably pretty immature." Certain that she wants to go into the newspaper business but uncertain whether she will settle in Newsday territory ("It's hard to pick out a man that lives on Long Island"), Alice knows what kind of paper she would like to run: "The New York Times with guts...
...surprising reaction in Washington," wrote New York Timesman James Reston, "was that the two leaders made [the NATO meeting] sound worse than it really was." Even Columnist Doris Fleeson, whose ardent Stevensonian viewpoint would ordinarily give little reason for applauding anything done by Republican Dwight Eisenhower in Paris, noted that the Eisenhower-Dulles speeches "made the Paris results seem less effective than they actually were. For it is no mean feat to hold a defensive alliance together when an aggressor seems to be going strong. This was achieved in Paris against odds." Far from using the NATO conference...
...Washington's political spectrum, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Minnesota's Stevensonian Democrat Hubert Humphrey are many shades apart. Yet last week Senator Humphrey and Secretary Dulles emerged arm in arm from a conference at Dulles' home in which Dulles heaped laurels on Humphrey. Reason: so sharp an impression of U.S. interest had Humphrey created during a four-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, so well did he defend U.S. policy there, that diplomatic cables into Foggy Bottom were buzzing with well-dones...
...Russians. The higher-ups concentrated on background briefing U.S. columnists and pundits-many of them still awallow in the wash of the sunken Adlai Stevenson-to the effect that Secretary Dulles had really been something of a failure (which was the British-French, as well as the sunk Stevensonian line...
From the same giant platform, but before a slightly smaller crowd than had listened to Ike, Adlai Stevenson made a major bid for the farm vote at Newton. Gone were the Stevensonian subtleties, the sophisticated quips, the careful acknowledgment of social and economic complexities. Instead, Stevenson struck out harshly at the Administration and its farm policies, promised the farmers everything but the moon on behalf of the Democrats. For all this he was handsomely rewarded with 30 bursts of laughter and applause...