Stevenson
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname originating as a patronymic.
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
A city in Jackson County, Alabama, United States.
An unincorporated community in Warrick County, Indiana, United States.
A city, the county seat of Skamania County, Washington, United States.
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I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
Kennedy reminds me of Lindbergh and I suspect him of wishing to have a tough foreign policy and to worry about prestige. On the other hand, he is on the left, will be nicer to Negroes than to Big Business and has promised to appoint Adlai Stevenson as secretary of state. So it works out 50/50 by me.
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.