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...commencement address, Adlai E. Stevenson, United States Ambassador to the United Nations warned that "steady intelligence in command of the facts" is all we have to combat "panic reactions" in this time of great social upheaval...
...speech sprinkled with literary references, Stevenson admitted that this is a world "still very largely run by men," and said that men "clearly have had some difficulty in making up their minds about women and their roles...
...Stevenson warned that society, by restricting women to "the dishes and the diapers," is potentially stifling and inhibiting half its brain power...
...Adlai Stevenson's defeat as a repudiation of intellect in politics. But it was a Republican year, argues Hofstadter, and almost any Republican would have won -let alone Eisenhower, who had the added advantage of enormous personal charm. Nor were all intellectuals for Stevenson. Following the current lodge rules for intellectuals, Hofstadter seems to assume that an intellectual is necessarily a "liberal"-thereby neglecting a whole genealogy of conservative intellectuals from Alexander Hamilton through Henry Adams to Henry L. Mencken and Robert Frost...
...Damn the King!" Beaverbrook has acquired the private papers of several key figures in his drama, most notably the unpublished diaries of Frances Stevenson, who was Lloyd George's secretary, later his wife, and for many years his closest confidante. Though Beaverbrook describes Miss Stevenson's diaries as "a startling political document," his discreet excerpts give no hint of Lloyd George's notorious amatory adventures...