Word: californianism
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...Californian Quinn is the first person from west of the Mississippi to head the bishops' conference since it assumed new power in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. As a bishop in Oklahoma for 5% years, he earned a reputation for aloofness from his flock, but one of his early projects after moving to San Francisco was a series of intimate "listening sessions" with priests...
...business, it also creates a blizzard of paper work. Concedes Chairman Bill Harrah: "The danger is that you can become overorganized and start getting answers and information that you don't really need. It's something we fight all the time." For Harrah, a quiet ex-Californian who owns 84% of the company's stock, fussing over minutiae is a hard habit to break after 40 years. Recently he ordered a hotel restaurant billboard repainted after noticing that the rack-of-lamb dinner on it "looked raw." At 66, though, Harrah has begun delegating more decision making...
Captain Katie Ditzler, sporting "the strongest net game on the team," as Felske said, volleyed like a Californian should and won her match, 6-3, 6-4, over Dale Kampell. A newcomer to the sixth singles position, freshman Marjorie Solomon began her collegiate tennis career in style, defeating Donna More love...
...album. The last song, "Bite Your Lip (Get Up and Dance)" is an all-out exhortation to "move that muscle and shake that fat," and it works. Elton brings in piano, bass, drums, slide guitar, electric guitar, synthesizers, congas, strings, and the Cornerstone Institutional Baptist and Southern Californian Community Choir, to join him in an assault on absolute boogie. The music doesn't really go anywhere, but it's fun while it lasts...
...next year's gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said he: "It was not the kind of story I would have run. It's got nothing to do with Brown's ability as Governor." Says Kevin Starr, a fourth-generation Californian who was formerly Afew West's Northern California bureau chief "The mentality there seems to be 'The Ten Best Places to Get Pate When You're Marching with Cesar Chavez.' It's a strange combination of hyperchic and diffusedly leftist outrage at the corruption of America...