Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, stout, balding, rumpled, plain-speaking man who viewed the world through black-rimmed bifocals and generally liked what he saw. He was, in brief, the antithesis of the popular conception of the sleek, cynical advertising man. Yet when Leo Burnett died at 79 after a heart attack last week, he was one of the ad world's giants. Along with a handful of others -Bruce Barton, Albert Lasker and Stanley Resor-Burnett was an American original who brought a distinctive viewpoint to the often imitative business of mass persuasion...
...appears the very model of the Southern politician: balding, rather stout, a devoted Democrat who dutifully worked his way up through party ranks. He spent twelve patient, hard-working years in the state senate and four years as lieutenant governor. In a gubernatorial campaign rife with racial overtones, West displayed a commendable combination of traditional Southern eloquence and a considered program for his state's future. His opponent, Republican Congressman Albert Watson, repeatedly played on the racist theme of unrest in South Carolina's desegregated schools. West calmly denounced such emotional exploitation and mapped out an intelligent program for solving...
They sat around the tables in groups of six and eight, conversing over half-filled cups of coffee and glasses of Budweiser. The women, most of them middle-aged and as stout as their candidate, huddled together while their husbands leaned over the tables, staring at the intruding reporters...
...when fine French and German wines began flowing across the Atlantic, the expertise came too. Vines, vineyards and vintages were soberly debated. Wine-tasting sessions became social events and the sniffy phrases of oenology became part of the language. Even plebeian beer has long since acquired its own stout band of connoisseurs. By contrast, little attention has been paid to the fine points of enjoying America's own proud indigenous beverage-ubiquitous, multi-flavored, effervescent soda pop. To remedy that omission, California Novelist Earl Shorris (Boots of the Virgin) has set down some obiter dicta in San Francisco...
...Stout is out, and so are other masculine drinks like ale and porter. Even beer "has a much thinner taste," according to Winick. The tastelessness of convenience foods like instant coffee "helps reinforce our acceptance of the neuter" in the rest of our culture. In ballet, adults adore the unisexuality of Nureyev; in books, children prefer easy-to-read real-life adventures to fairy tales with their "idealized, romantic rolemodels of the masculine and feminine...