Word: californianism
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...Joan Didion's new novel. In which she follows the conscience ( conscience? try consciousness, a better word it seems, though not one she would use) that leads her to rip open, ever so neatly, ever so tellingly, a world whose center no longer holds, America in its southwestern and Californian apocalypse, the source for most of her essays in her brilliant collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and now the setting for the new novel...
...Joan Didion's new novel. In which she follows the conscience ( conscience? try consciousness, a better word it seems, though not one she would use) that leads her to rip open, ever so neatly, ever so tellingly, a world whose center no longer holds, America in its southwestern and Californian apocalypse, the source for most of her essays in her brilliant collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, and now the setting for the new novel...
Though the winners of 20 of the 24 individual events are Californian or California-trained, the widest smile on the West Coast was on the face of a gray-haired Hoosier. Indiana University's redoubtable Dr. Jim Counsilman will have Hall, Kinsella, Spitz and Stamm swimming for his N.C.A.A. champion team next winter. As Dr. Jim, who coached U.S. Olympic champs in Tokyo in 1964, sums it up: "I wouldn't want to coach another country in the 1972 Olympics...
Stockton may never have a legion of adoring fans like Arnie's Army. Who does? But after his victory last week in one of professional golf's most prestigious tournaments, the rangy, 28-year-old Californian certainly has the beginnings of Dave's Dragoons. Unsung and largely unknown, he was the only man among 70 golfers to beat par with a one-under-279 for 72 holes around Tulsa's notoriously tough Southern Hills course. In the 100° heat, Jack Nicklaus soared to a horrendous 76 on the second round and Lee Trevino posted...
...they always interview the brainwashed? Why didn't they ask Harry Lehman-a 22-year-old Californian who for the past year and a half has been seeking discharge as a CO-what he thinks of life on the ship and high seas? Why didn't they talk to some of the young blacks who have tried to organize against the oppression they face daily at the hands of white racist officers and chiefs and petty officers? (The Captain of KENNEDY is from Virginia, the Executive Officer from Mississippi...