Word: stevensonian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standards of 1976, when a clutch of candidates are lusting for the presidency, that anomie seems as remote as the Age of Jefferson. But it was typically Stevensonian. The candidate's constantly expressed reluctance endeared him to his followers, who considered him too good for politics, a man of rare sensibility and cultivated aloofness. There is much to support such a view of Stevenson in this first major biography, which carries him through his defeat in the 1952 presidential election...
...actions. The best and the Brightest begins with a meeting between President-elect Kennedy and Robert Lovett, the torchbearer of the Establishment. Kennedy had run as a liberal, Halberstam writes, and he knew the liberal had nowhere else to go. So he turned his back on the liberal stevensonian, Chester Bowies, and cultivated the Lovetts and the Luces. Lovett impressed upon Kennedy the importance of choosing a professional Cabinet of "the right people"--people like Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Douglas Dillon. When Kennedy, the Irish Catholic from Boston, replied that he did not know the right people, Lovett told...
...built on common hopes. He sees as its unifying principle not total agreement or even substantial agreement about the particulars of program and policy, but rather recognition of the need for civility in working out ways to approach the great goals of the society. As he sees it, the Stevensonian concept of civility is accessible equally to persons north, west, south, east, black, white, yellow, young...