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Determined exploitation of humor by politicians probably started after Adlai Stevenson and then John Kennedy used quips to charm the press and public. "In America," said Stevenson, who lost the presidency twice, "any boy may become President, and I suppose that's just the risk he takes." During the 1960 campaign, Kennedy used a joke to defuse criticism that he was a spoiled rich man's son. His father, Kennedy said, had sent him a telegram: "Don't buy one vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide...
Born in 1929 and a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Yale Law School. Lowenstein first became politically active in the 1950s working with Adlai Stevenson and Eleanor Roosevelt. He went on to organize student activists while a dean at Stanford University and Later served in Congress and as national chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). He was the U.S. representative of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and the U.N. Ambassador for Special Political Affairs in 1977. He was a close friend and side of Robert M. Kennedy '48, and was active in the presidential campaigns...
...hard to believe it'll work now. Indeed it's hard to remember a time when age or health concerns did defeat a presidential nominee. Back in 1956, with Dwight D. Eisenhower recuperating from a massive heart attack of the year before. Adlai E. Stevenson declared that "every piece of scientific evidence we have, every lesson of history and experience" indicated that Eisenhower would conk out by the end of a second term. Of course, he didn't--but Stevenson's campaign collapsed, in small part because his followers were jarred by his descent from classiness...
Privileged's profits will go to the Oxford Film Foundation, which the movie's producer, Richard Stevenson, a 27-year-old American, helped establish. It will provide professional movie training, which has never existed at Oxford. This might be a mistake. The film, whatever its miscues, already has what no trade school can teach: a sense of how intelligent people think, talk and act within a cultivated society. It is hard to find that in any movie today, rare indeed to find it in the typical academic product...
...lines. M*A*S*H had another advantage, although at the time it must have seemed a daunting challenge. Four of the first season's eight regular cast members eventually left the show, and with each replacement the circle of community became tighter. In his rubber-limbed way, Stevenson's Colonel Blake had been as much a MASH misfit as Frank Burns: a suburban doctor reluctant to command, with a fisherman's wily patience and a heart of puppy chow. When Stevenson departed after the third season (his character was reported killed in an airplane crash...