Word: californianism
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Heavy pot users have common personality traits. They speak noticeably slower than normal, and their words seep out from the back of their throats as if they were trying to say "ah" for the doctor and assume a Californian accent at the same time. They also often allow their mouths to droop open during pauses in conversation, and then stare at you with an awkward yet genuine friendliness reminiscent of the humbly thankful look you give to someone who praises your haircut...
...course not true that the prisoner's way of talking was noticeably Californian. But Clumly hated California, or anyway felt alarmed by it...Clumly's wife was a blind woman with bright glass eyes and small, pinched features and a body as white as his own. Her small shoulders sagged and her neck was long, so that her head seemed to sway above her like a hairy sunflower. He minded the way she filled her teacup one finger over the rim to watch the level, and he minded the way she talked to herself perpetually, going about the house with...
With two live chickens and 200 eggs, $20,000 and no prospects, the Couvreux family from Bordeaux crossed the Atlantic in a 40-ft. ketch. There was Michel (the father, the Frenchman, the architect) and Janis (the mother, the Californian, the first mate), and their little boy Sean and his baby brother Brendan, as newborn at the time as his father's dream -- everyman's dream -- to sail away...
Several weeks ago, The Crimson printed an editorial by Laurie Grossman on Mexican immigrant workers in California ("California Contradiction," January 14). later, Saied Kashani '86, a native Californian, wrote The Crimson to "take exception" to the examples of racism and economic oppression mentioned in the article. Apparently, Mr. Kashani felt the article exaggerated the amount of racism inflicted upon immigrants and the rest of California's Mexican-American population. Now, as both a California and a Mexican-American, it is I who find it necessary to take exception to the remarks of Mr. Kashani...
...Californian for the past two decades, I must take exception to Miss Grossman's recent editorial on Mexican immigrant workers in California. Miss Grossman paints a bleak picture of opulent Californians living off the fruits of Mexican "slave" labor...