Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving in Oregon after a day of California campaigning, Kennedy acknowledged defeat, "It would appear that McCarthy has won the primary," Kennedy said, "I congratulate...
...Kennedy, defeat in Oregon makes next Tuesday's California primary doubly critical, and some observers have suggested he will now find it more difficult there to achieve the resounding victory he seeks...
...McCarthy, apart from a significant psychological boost, the win should ease fund-raising problems in the last week of the California campaign, and possibly help bring back some members of the student corps currently studying for exams...
Students who claimed to know said that almost all the marijuana on campus during the winter term came from one student who brought back 30 ounces of "California stuff." This was said to be sold in ounces and half ounces for $15-20 per ounce. This one person is reported to have stopped his business leaving very few people with any drugs...
...poems, slipped in to compliment the critical articles, are partly responsible for Bogus' high quality. "California Plush" by graduate student Frank Bidart just misses being one of those six-page identity crisis -California -Cambridge poems; but Bidart's sincere, practically apologetic awkwardness saves it from banality. John L'Heureux seems a more accomplished poet. His "Three Awful Picnics" manipulates a playfully surreal death (of a man whose "head split open like a rotten cantaloupe and seven birds flew out") through three discordant, animated perspectives...