Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stanford, California...
...Vogel to Livingston: "Moral purity" trap. 202 Junipero Serra Boulevard Stanford, California 94305 August...
James Kilbreath, a Soc Rel 148 sectionman, said yesterday that Cleaver "really wanted to come to Harvard," even though his speaking schedule was crowded since he is the Presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party in California. The Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government--a co-sponsor of the lecture--was told on Friday that Cleaver would break other commitments to come to Harvard...
Cleaver, author of Soul on Ice, is also a lecturer at an experimental course at the University of California at Berkeley. That appointment has been opposed by conservative forces in California, who denounced Cleaver's criminal record and lack of formal qualifications...
Among urban cognoscenti, Los Angeles has long been an object of scorn. Many critics for years ridiculed the sprawling metropolis as a gaggle of suburbs "in search of a city." They had a point. The core of the city not only failed to share in Southern California's explosive postwar growth but developed ominous symptoms of decay. Though downtown Los Angeles remained a stronghold for banking, finance, oil and insurance, jobs in other fields followed people to the suburbs. Vacancy rates soared in dingy old office buildings. Sleazy stores and bad restaurants proliferated. Forsaken by many retailers, streets that...