Word: brotherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lonely Washington, Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman George Smathers, the Florida sparkler, called for reporters and tartly read off Butler for discussion that "takes people's minds off the virtues of the Democratic Party." In Louisiana, slow-burning Governor Earl Long, brother to the late Huey, proclaimed: "I've been hearing things like that 'integrate or get out' for a long time. You can tell Mr. Butler I said I don't intend to do either." Many a Southern politician echoed the sharp words of Mississippi Governor J. P. Coleman: "Instead of the South being thrown...
...ration Equestre Internationale. But Mariles is no ordinary name in international horsemanship. Her father, Brigadier General Humberto Mariles, 45, is one of the world's great horsemen, helped make Mexico a power in the equestrian world. For long, toilsome hours Vicki and her older brother Humberto Jr., now 18, worked under their father's exacting eye to master Mariles' jumping style, in which the rider stays firmly in the saddle at the take-off point instead of lifting up to urge his mount over the barrier...
This note by the 19-year-old Vincent van Gogh, then a salesman in Goupil's art gallery in The Hague, to his younger brother Theo, 15, began the greatest correspondence in the history of art. Eighteen years and hundreds of letters later, it was to end with the letter found in Vincent's pocket after he had fatally shot himself with a revolver: "Well, the truth is, we can only make our pictures speak. But yet, my dear brother . . . I tell you again that I shall always consider you to be something more than a simple dealer...
Night of the Soul. The one stable relationship of Vincent's life was with his younger brother. And it is to Theo, first cautiously, then in a torrent, that he pours forth his doubts and his struggles. From the coal pits of Belgium, he confessed to Theo his failure as a lay preacher, crying: "How can I be of use in the world? Can't I serve some purpose and be of any good?" But only a few months after this night of the soul, Vincent could write, "Well, even in that deep misery I felt my energy...
...much less Republicans than know-nothings; they swear by the Literary Digest, are amazed that the banks have reopened and that there is a different Man in the White House. And they are soon as dissatisfied with modern-day Republicans as with New Dealers, though delighted-being broke-that brother Rensselaer's old habit of buying all sorts of screwball inventions has reaped them millions in air conditioning, cellophane and nylon...