Word: californianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loose ends after the war, he trekked west to San Francisco and took a job as watchman at the U.S. mint. On the side, he read Gibbon and Pope, minted an acrid style of his own. In 1867, he managed to get a grisly romantic poem published in the Californian, and from then on journalism, more accurately, invective journalism, was his business...
...Burr Miller's marble Chrysalis showed how a sensitive chisel can tease stone to life, and Saul Baizerman's Eve proved that it is also possible to hammer life into a sheet of copper. The water-colors ranged from the sweet, wet realism of Californian John Langley Howard's Coast Line to New Yorker Hans Hofmann's wholly abstract and strikingly handsome Composition...
...Californian who swam the English Channel faster than any woman ever...
After disposing of a couple of California hopefuls in the early rounds, Ham beat New Jersey's Pablo Eisenberg,† 18, with 6-1, 6-1 ease. In the final, against Californian Whitney Reed, 17, he won again...
...when he won the U.S. junior tennis title. But since then he had become rather a nebulous character who seemed to pop up in a lot of European tournaments, never showed up much at home. After his discharge from the U.S. Army in 1945, the big Californian had settled down to enjoy life on the Continent. Last year the U.S.L.T.A. left him unranked because of "insufficient data." By last week, however, Budge Patty had given the U.S.L.T.A. enough data to upset their statistical applecart...