Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats, apparently riding the crest of the wave, headed for blind disaster on some still-distant shore? One Democrat who thinks so is Harvard Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., brain-truster and speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson through two campaigns. Modern Democratic bosses are deliberately ignoring a treasure of intellectual-liberal candidates in favor of "mediocre party hacks," Schlesinger writes in the New Republic. Case in point: Tammany's passing over of onetime Secretary of the Air Force Thomas K. Finletter in New York to hand the U.S. Senate nomination to District Attorney Frank Hogan, who "has hardly voiced...
...could have mentioned that Adlai Stevenson was for the suspension of such tests back...
...ADLAI STEVENSON could only benefit by a Brown win. Pat Brown was one of Stevenson's presidential boosters in 1952, backed him strongly again in 1956. Urged on by powerful Stevenson Democrats in California, Brown would be agreeably inclined toward Stevenson in 1960 and might hope to be Illinoisan Stevenson's running mate...
Answering a dusty question, Adlai Stevenson told reporters in Paris, "I shall not seek the nomination," then followed up the old response with a parable. Holocaust had obliterated life on earth, Adlai recounted, leaving one shook-up gorilla. Wandering hungrily on the ashen plains, the ape at length came upon a cave. In the cave was a beautiful lady gorilla, who purred: "We are the only two living beings on earth." "Lady," said the tired male, "have you got anything to eat?" From deep in the cave the lady gorilla brought forth a large, red apple. "Oh, lord," moaned...
Wearing new holes in his shoes, Adlai Stevenson marched west across Europe, stopped to lunch with 93-year-old Art Historian Bernard Berenson at a villa some 20 miles from Florence. In coffee-time seclusion the avowed future candidate for nothing and the acknowledged past master of art criticism swapped ideas on such world problems as U.S. v. Soviet education, American politics, Russia's practical advantage over the U.S. in not being bound to moral and political standards. "We must create respect for excellence," said Stevenson. Berenson agreed, suggested the stirring rallying cry: "Intellectuals of the world, unite...