Word: brewer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...told that there were not enough of them to fill one. After rejecting a proposal that she make a bequest to Amherst-she believed that professors there were subversives bent on controlling central Massachusetts-Smith settled on starting the college, which opened in 1875. Matthew Vassar, a Poughkeepsie brewer, simply wanted to be remembered, and was persuaded that the women's college he was to found in 1865 would be something "more lasting than the pyramids." In his private diary, the brewer speculated on his future reputation: "The founder of Vassar College and President Lincoln-two noble emancipationists...
WHEN GEORGE WALLACE ran against Albert Brewer for governor of Alabama in 1970, no one expected he'd have to use a meat cleaver to win. But there is no Marquis of Queensbury in Southern politics, Brewer got a little too close for comfort, and pretty soon Alabama voters were being handed pamphlets with doctored photographs of Brewer in between Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. Pretty soon word went around that Albert Brewer's two daughters were pregnant with black babies. Pretty soon Albert Brewer was back practicing law in Montogomery...
WHENEVER WALLACE wants to send another Albert Brewer to the showers, he wheels himself out and goes straight to the John Rawbons, spread over the dark inner continent of Florida. Some people who venture into that dark interior which begins at the Everglades and runs up the center of the Thumb past Tallahassee and Chatahoochee find the Rawbons. These are the Wallace people, who would vote for Wallace even if he were dead because of what he represented to the spreading rot of the North. Last week Wallace said that he would consider a black man for vice president...
Wallace just can't deal with Carter the same way he bludgeoned poor Albert Brewer. Not only does he have to speak the sanitized language of the presidential campaign, he must as well watch Carter take a tip from Max Weber and take advantage of the routinization of his charisma, the routinization of his demagoguery...
Harvard will remain a member of the AAC, Brewer said...