Adlai Stevenson: Twice-Burnt Offering

Behind the bright words, an intellectual vacuum. He would have world peace and never recognize that its cost may be national survival.

Whatever else may be said of the Stevensonites, they are certainly a dead game bunch. With a twice-defeated Presidential candidate who is coy, self-deprecatory, and fond of making himself the butt of his own anecdotes, they persist in putting forward their man as if he were a veritable Charles de Gaulle. They look upon their Hamlet and see in his urbane and melancholy lineaments a man of action—as, indeed, Hamlet, after sufficient prodding of his sense of fitness, finally turned out to be.

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John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain (1903–1995) was an American writer.

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Behind the bright words, an intellectual vacuum. He would have world peace and never recognize that its cost may be national survival.

Whatever else may be said of the Stevensonites, they are certainly a dead game bunch. With a twice-defeated Presidential candidate who is coy, self-deprecatory, and fond of making himself the butt of his own anecdotes, they persist in putting forward their man as if he were a veritable Charles de Gaulle. They look upon their Hamlet and see in his urbane and melancholy lineaments a man of action—as, indeed, Hamlet, after sufficient prodding of his sense of fitness, finally turned out to be.