Word: californianism
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...meetings outside class hours. Several safeguards are designed to preserve the line between church and state. Meetings must be voluntary and student initiated. Proponents argue that the law would give students who wish to meet for religious purposes the same rights as students who gather for other reasons. Says Californian John Stoos, a regional director of the American Life Lobby: "It's surprising that we had to grovel for the same rights already given to Communists, Nazis and chess clubs...
...regarded as a pioneer by the other paddlers: Sheila Conover, 21, a Californian and sometime student at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., the most gifted natural athlete on the squad; Shirley Dery, 22, born in the U.S. of Hungarian parents, who trained until last year with the powerful Hungarian team; and Leslie Klein, 29, from Concord, Mass., another kayak gypsy who converted from white-water kayaking. Klein spent years "living out of a car in soaking wet clothes, eating gritty oatmeal." Her life is somewhat more conventional now; she is married to J.T. Kearney, a phys-ed professor...
...1980s have been the decade for Harvard to adopt traditionally Californian sports. First men's and women's volleyball became varsity competitors, then men's water polo. This year, women's varsity water polo finally made the trip East...
...with his cantankerous, profane, macho manner. Even a hunting pal, Dale Whitesell, executive vice president of Ducks Unlimited, a national conservation organization, admits, "Where James Watt would never say a four-letter word, Ray would say every one you ever heard and some you haven't." Arnett, a Californian who headed that state's department of fish and game for seven years, likes to twit his environmentalist foes, calling them "tree huggers," "Chicken Little extremists" and "prairie fairies." Some months ago, he supported a tax on the binoculars, books and film used by bird watchers, wildlife photographers...
...capabilities did not include that of judging what was too obvious to require saying....Sandy gave him a look of hatred.") But because of Silver's lack of pretensions, these shortcomings rarely prove troublesome and sometimes even help. For instance, Lauren's own Bess and George--her wacky Southern Californian roommate Carol, who wears hotpants and lame sandals, and her best friend Michael, a gorgeous gay preppie from an old Boston family--are funny largely because they are overdone...