Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pursuing this lexicography, the booklet reveals that "Dear Robert Louis Stevenson" does not mean Dear Robert Louis Stevenson at all, but is instead "an efficient method of remembering the Quad houses, "which are conveniently named Davison, Raymond, Lathrop, and Strong. "Stacks" are also defined...
...months since Adlai Stevenson tiredly conceded that he had lost an election but gained a grandchild, he has been busy influencing friends and winning column inches. Showing slight interest in settling down to the nonpolitical routine of his Chicago-New York-Washington law practice, Stevenson toured Africa and Europe on a three-month, 16-nation jaunt, wrote articles, delivered speeches, held press conferences, appeared on television shows, enjoyed publication of his biography and his collected 1956 campaign speeches. At intervals, he thumped away at the man who beat him twice-and at some politicians in his own party. Stevenson openly...
...this began to touch off speculation about Adlai's hopes and aims: in the event that none of the new presidential hopefuls seems to have a commanding lead, might not seasoned old gladiator Stevenson be sent out in 1960 for yet another battle? Gossiped Chicago Tribune Columnist Herb Lyon: "Some of Adlai Stevenson's most avid Chicago followers are plotting to get him to try again...
...John housed his growing family in a tiny walk-up apartment, enrolled at Columbia University (where his father soon became President) to earn his M.A. in English literature. (Thesis: The Soldier as a Character in Elizabethan Drama.) In mid-1952, while his father campaigned for the presidency against Adlai Stevenson, John went off to his first combat in Korea, was assigned to one of Ike's old prewar outfits, the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment. As G-3 (Operations) and later as a 3rd Division Intelligence officer for 14 months, John came under Communist mortar fire, earned his Combat...
...stuck with the damn thing." More than one mother complained that she would miss cleaning the smudges her children made on the TV screen when they kissed the Kuklapolitans good night. To the chief programmer of NBC (and former ABC president) came a letter from Adlai Stevenson: "Surely such assassination, murther and mayhem cannot be permitted in this enlightened land...