Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California, Here It Comes...
...After reading your cover story on California living [Nov. 7]. I immediately checked my mailing address and found that I do indeed live in California. But how can I? My hair is not down to my ankles, I only have one wife, and am not the president of a fast-growing conglomerate. My religion does not revolve around the worship of the sun god, and I generally wear clothes. Horrors of all, my waistline is thickening and my hair is thinning, and F don't even care. Matter of fact, I do not even own a surfboard...
...another New England semifinal contest. Brown edged Bridgeport 2-1 and earned the right to replay Harvard in Cambridge next Monday afternoon. The Crimson and Bruins are now only two victories from a winter trip to sunny San Jose, California, for the national championship...
...Philip, prosperity is just around the coroner. In Marlowe-an adaptation of Chandler's The Little Sister-he follows the spoor of a runaway brother who leaves ice picks in people's necks. On the trail, the shamus uncovers some California tourist attractions (Gayle Hunnicutt, Rita Moreno), some lethal gangsters, and the mandatory snide police lieutenant (Carroll O'Connor...
...FRIEND and I were taking off last summer on a car trip to California, his father repeated his earlier warnings against picking up hitchhikers. "They can be dangerous, you know," he said. And last Sunday, after I had informed my mother that I had hitched the day before from Harvard to Bard College in New York, she warned against accepting rides from strangers. "They can be dangerous, you know." she said...