Word: hick
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Confer, the Nebraska native." The one who got her own paragraph explaining that she thought Harvard was nicer than Yale because Harvard seemed to have more trees. The one who made the astute observation that while Lincoln, Nebraska, wasn't exactly a "hick town," it was "much smaller than Boston...
Back in the Eisenhower era, as one undergraduate put it, Yalies viewed the future as "Stairway to Heaven, moving up through the clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain...
...Harvard Radcliffe Labor Alliance, a student groups, has been talking with dining hall workers and is planning to meet with Berry and to start a position campaign in Hick's behalf...
Offutt was raised in the hills of Kentucky. "Hillbilly was what the people in town called us," he writes. "Hick, ridgerunner, redneck, inbred ingrate, and my personal favorite, pig-fucker. My mother is my sixth cousin. My brother and sister are also my cousins but nobody in my family ever seduced a hog." Dissatisfied by the prospect of a life lived by moonshine and bluegrass, Offutt sets out for New York City to become an actor. He roams the U.S., never managing to hold down a job or a relationship; we see him dodge an arranged marriage in Minneapolis, grab...
Harry met the President-elect when his brother Danny, an optometrist in Little Rock who has known Clinton since they were college students, introduced them in the late 1960s. After Harry met Linda -- she had walked up to him at Columbia studios and said, "So you're the other hick on the lot" -- he went over with her to the Governor's mansion one morning for coffee and strawberries. The four didn't stop talking until many hours later. As a granddaughter of a muckraking Arkansas newspaper editor (he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan) and the daughter...