Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hallmark of Humor. In attempting to measure the ground between 50 and 20, Adlai Stevenson once put it this way to the students of Princeton: "What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 boils down to something like this: the knowledge that he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas, or forms of words, but of people, places, actions-a knowledge not gained by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love-the human experiences and emotions of this earth; and perhaps, too, a little faith and a little...
Adams, who has built his campaign around the Vietnam issue, made his suggestion about Lodge to more than 350 people in Emerson Hall, and then elaborated later in a brief interview. Although he declined to name specific alternatives to Lodge, he commented that the late Adlai Stevenson was the type man he had in mind...
...need heroes? Not in the sense of the man on the white horse who will take care of everything. To the uncertain, sheer conviction-right or wrong-is a kind of relief. This is what makes "heroes" out of the Hitlers, the Stalins, and even the Joe McCarthys. Adlai Stevenson, who is a hero of the intellectuals, knew the difference. Reaching back to Cicero in comparing himself to Jack Kennedy, he noted ruefully, "When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke'-but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said, 'Let us march...
...NANCY STEVENSON ADAMS Athens, Ohio
...demand for change is growing. Outright abolition of the draft (as suggested in recent years by, of all people, Adlai Stevenson and Barry Goldwater) seems unrealistic. For. as General Hershey likes to put it: "I don't believe we will ever see the end of the draft in my lifetime or yours. We've never had peace since I started this job, even after the end of wars, and I don't see that kind of peace in the future...