Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARY JANE STEVENSON Lewisburg...
...size. Readers range all the way from Martin Luther King to Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing to Walter Lippmann, who recently paid tribute to C & C in the form of a $5,000 gift. Over the years, its contributors have included Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain, Adlai Stevenson and John Foster Dulles...
...coed slides into a plastic chair in a soft green three-sided cubicle, consults a mimeographed list, flips a switch, sees a red light blink, dials 1-2-2, pulls on earphones. Into the headset flows the voice of her political science professor, then Adlai Stevenson on the meaning of democracy, finally a discussion of freedom by New York University's Sidney Hook-and thus ends Lecture 1, Second Semester, Political Science...
...STEVENSON WIT by Bill Adler. 95 pages. Doub/eday...
...Stevenson Wit, which Adler thought up shortly before Adlai Stevenson died, reminds readers that Stevenson was a singularly lighthearted and amusing man. There is, for example, his rallying call during the 1952 presidential campaign: "Eggheads unite-you have nothing to lose but your yolks!" Not to mention his wry crack after the election: "When I was a boy, I was told that anyone could be President, and I believed it." Or the comment he made in 1960 when he was caught in a traffic jam at the Washington airport as Charles de Gaulle arrived: "It seems my fate is always...