Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea was suggested by Jesse Birnbaum, our San Francisco bureau chief since last January after 18 years as a writer and senior editor in New York. Traveling west with an Easterner's (Passaic, N.J.) eye. Birnbaum was immediately struck by "how much of the California legend was true-the climate, the geography, the hordes of new Californians shucking off old ways and values and experimenting with the new"-sometimes compulsively, sometimes casually. "The more I got to know San Francisco, the more intrigued I became with its life style, its easy atmosphere, the narcissism of the city...
...general discussion of California and its impact was written by Birnbaum, who filed voluminously along with other correspondents and then returned to New York with pen in hand once again. The I-am-a-Camera section is the result of a personal odyssey by Los Angeles Correspondent Tim Tyler-a Californian of 22 months. It was a voyage of discovery for Tim. "For the surfing scene, I just had to try it myself," he says. "And I grew to hate those half-pint kids who kept zipping by me while I missed every wave. In Yosemite National Park, my rented...
...object to the political involvement of a federally funded organization," said Senator George Murphy of California. In the same vein, Florida Senator Edward Gurney denounced OEO lawyers for "agitation." Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona accused them of "inciting trouble" on the Navajo reservation in the West...
Greater Respect. Senator Murphy's target is one of the most ambitious Legal Services programs: the California Rural Legal Assistance project. In three years, CRLA lawyers have won 85% of more than 35,000 cases. Their success has nourished a greater respect for law among the state's rural poor, especially Mexican Americans. In 1967, the agency upset Governor Ronald Reagan when it won a suit to prevent him from cutting benefits for almost 1,500,000 people in the state's medical-assistance program. Reagan threatened to veto CRLA's aDoropriation but reportedly...
...earthquake were somehow to tear California off the continent and set it afloat in the sea, the island state might survive. But could the rest of the U.S.? California is virtually a nation unto itself, but it holds a strange hope, a sense of excitement-and some terror-for Americans. As most of them see it, the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about. The citizens of lotusland seem forever to be lolling around swimming pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year...