Word: californianism
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...impressive story, all right, and the wine people out here ought to be happy about it. But how and why did you omit the name of the one Californian who knows more about wine than anybody else in the world, who was and is responsible for the high quality of wine in America, and to whom people come to study from all other continents? I am speaking of course of Maynard Amerine of the University of California at Davis...
...failed to qualify for the final because of a leg injury. Seagren had his problems even without Isakkson's competition. His and his teammates' new poles were confiscated the night before the trials started on the grounds that they were too sophisticated for Olympic competition. Thus the handsome young Californian had to qualify with a pole he had previously abandoned. In other track and field events, the U.S. will be below its traditional Olympic strength. America has the weakest women's track team since before World War II, and the quadrennial Yankee domination of the dashes, high and long jumps...
...following editorial is endorsed by these newspapers The Crimson. The B.U. News, The B.U. Free Press, The Boston College Heights, The Berkeley Beacon, The Simmons Janus, The Tufts Observer, The Michigan Daily, The Stanford Daily, The Daily Californian, The Wisconsin Daily Cardinal, The Williams Record Advocate Newton 885, The University of California at Davis Aggic, and The Wesleyan Argus...
When scoffers tell Dave Kilbourne, a 31 year-old Californian, to go fly a kite, he is only too happy to oblige. He flies over them in a delta winged kite that looks like a large version of a child's paper dart. "My family all think I'm nuts," he admits, "but this kite flying, launching yourself off a cliff into a breeze, has got to be the most satisfying thing ever...
...Winters is one of the few young actresses with comic timing, and Matthau gives a carefully detailed impersonation of a Californian slipping into his anecdotage. He is both abetted and hindered by his director, a new boy named Jack Lemmon. Matthau and Lemmon first worked together as fellow actors in Fortune Cookie and consolidated their partnership in The Odd Couple. Lemmon obviously has great affection for his sidekick; in 114 minutes, the star is hardly ever offscreen...