Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JOHN UNGARETTI, '72 Applied Behavioral Sciences University of California Davis, Calif...
...Hate California, it's cold and it's damp...
LORENZ HART was a superb lyricist, but he had his failings as a reporter. Hate California? Cold and damp? Just tell that to the citizens of the nation's most populous and most fascinating state, glowing with sunlight, blessed by beauty, rich beyond counting. In its cover story this week, TIME examines its people-who they are, what they seek, how California affects the U.S., present and future...
...basic situation pits a politically ambitious but honest California district attorney against an idealistic, pipe-smoking lawyer who is defending a bookseller accused of selling obscene matter. The matter in question is The Seven Minutes, a novel that records the thoughts of a woman while she is enjoying intercourse. "Filth!" cry the D.A., the church and civilian smut-busters. "Art," intones the defense and assorted experts. "Shame," says the reader who recognizes that Wallace fails to show an awareness of the 1966 Supreme Court ruling on Fanny Hill. The decision stated that a book offending community standards could be proscribed...
...this issue of the political test, as in so much else. California has shown us what may be the face of the future...