Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fable and The Town. Also editor of Sherwood Anderson, James Michener, Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Robinson Jeffers, Budd Schulberg and Irwin Shaw, Commins long directed Random House's Modern Library series, also assembled the Selected Writings of Washington Irving (1945), Selected Writings of Robert Louis Stevenson (1947), Basic Writings of George Washington (1948), Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952), and (with Robert N. Linscott) the four-volume World's Great Thinkers...
Wiser in the world's ways than when he tramped through Lenin land as a boy reporter (for I.N.S.) in 1926, peripatetic Democrat Adlai Stevenson arrived in the Soviet north for a four-week tour. "I'm going to do as little talking as possible," said Adlai in Leningrad. "I have to learn as much as I can of the life and work of the Soviet people. It is important for the peace of the world that we understand each other." Besides rubbernecking in the tundra, Stevenson will hack away at a thorny issue: royalties for U.S. authors...
...TIME, crisscrossed the U.S. both before and during the campaigns. He dogged the footsteps of Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy for six years, and his work resulted in two memorable cover stories (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951; March 8, 1954). Among the many other covers on which McConaughy reported: Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, McCarthy Committee Lawyer Ray Jenkins, Georgia's Senator Walter George. Last year, weeks before the historic Senate battle on civil rights legislation reached its climax, Jim McConaughy laid down clearly and accurately the complex strategic and tactical lines, furnished the reporting...
...Stevenson backers who might begin to get that dizzy feeling, Gallup had some bad news: Vice President Richard Nixon's tour through Latin America (TIME, May 5, et seq.) boosted his political stock substantially, for the first time put him ahead of Democrat Stevenson in the "trial heat" popularity votes that Gallup kept on running between just about any possible pair of candidates from the two parties. In March Nixon got 47% against Stevenson's 53%; in the last poll Nixon drew 53% to Stevenson...
...sort of "anxious disapproval" was being expressed "largely by some currently displaced foreign policy-makers of the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations," tartly added that "these American 'liberals' " apparently prefer chaos to De Gaulle. ¶ "Remarkable" was Reston's word for a commencement address by Adlai E. Stevenson, which called for a committee of experts to work out a long-range economic recovery program for the free world. Said Krock: "The files already are bulging with a dozen such formulations by 'committees of experts...