Word: californiaisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...situation. University concern centers mainly on the fact that the complex planning for next year's budgets, faculty assignments and graduate fellowships must be made long before summer. The uncertainty about just how many graduate students will be called up, and when, is creating what University of Southern California Associate Graduate Dean Charles G. Mayo calls "an atmosphere of futility...
After orientation, interns spend their time trying to solve the same kind of administrative puzzles that constantly occupy their bosses. Boston University's John Cartwright, assistant to a student affairs dean, already has persuaded students at the University of California's Santa Cruz campus to get off "the top of this hill" and help tutor the area's high school pupils from culturally deprived areas. Sister Mary Christopher surveyed student rights on 20 campuses as an aid to a Colorado College committee assigned to draft a student rights bill. Air Force Academy Associate Professor George H. Janczewski...
...wrote an instant bestseller, The Cradle of the Deep, a purported autobiographical account of how she and her father adventured through the Seven Seas for 17 years. The only flaws were an obvious lack of nautical knowledge and the fact that friends remembered her as a California schoolgirl. Shrugged Joan, as the Book-of-the-Month Club offered refunds: "Any damn fool can be accurate-and dull...
DELANO: THE STORY OF THE CALIFORNIA GRAPE STRIKE by John Gregory Dunne. 176 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...California contains-along with hippies, think tanks and computerized leisure-a number of anachronisms. From the fall of 1965 until late last year, the vast and verdant San Joaquin Valley was the scene of a farm workers' strike that, in its stark simplicity, seemed to re-trample Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. At issue were no such modern matters as automation and a guaranteed annual wage but merely the right of California's 500,000 fieldworkers, predominantly Mexican-Americans, to unionize...