Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith, 49. is an economist who has always found a wider audience than his less articulate colleagues. His American Capitalism: the Concept of Countervailing Power was a bestseller in 1952; some of its ideas went into the 1956 campaign speeches of Adlai Stevenson, which Galbraith helped write. This week, in The Affluent Society (Houghton Mifflin; $4), Galbraith published what he obviously intended to be a searching inquiry into the U.S. economy. Instead, it is a well-written but vague essay with the air of worried dinner-table conversation...
...last place France expected to be troublesome was Tahiti. The largest island of French Polynesia, Tahiti, 2,600 miles southeast of Hawaii, spends most of its time dreaming under swaying palms while the surf breaks gently on the coral reefs. Generations of expatriates-from Melville to Robert Louis Stevenson to Gauguin-have fled to the islands seeking forgetfulness in the company of sunlit skies and black-haired amoral vahines...
...Southern ancestry that stretches back to Colonial times, Ashmore is convinced that the South must change with changing times before change is forced upon it from the outside. He expounded his thesis in an eloquent recent book (An Epitaph for Dixie), urged it upon Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson, whom he served as civil-rights adviser in the 1956 campaign. In the high school crisis last fall, Ashmore did not argue the merits of integration v. segregation, simply maintained that the sole question was "the supremacy of the government of the U.S. in all matters of law." Throughout the struggle, Ashmore...
...freedom of freelancing that has driven many another writer back to the certainty of the payroll. Says he: "I resist the bigness that's coming to the magazine field. I'm a 19th century man." In 1952 Democrat Martin wrote a campaign biography of Adlai Stevenson; in 1956 he was a Stevenson staff writer...
...Adlai Stevenson, addressing a Democratic women's conference, spent a whimsical paragraph on a sure laugh-getter, the sack dress. "The source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...