Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago Psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson of Middletown, Conn., tested 155 black and white youngsters between the ages of three and six in Headstart programs or preschools in New York City, on Long Island and in Connecticut. Using 20 Cabbage Patch dolls identical except for color, Hopson asked the children to give her the doll that "you want to be, you want to play with, is a nice color and would take home if you could." To Hopson's surprise, 65% of the black youngsters selected white dolls...
...ALSO a Widener Library-sized leap in approach from that favored by Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where I used to go to school. You won't find t-shirts in the Wesleyan school store that read "Wesleyan, Carleton of the East." Instead, you'll find a very popular shirt that lists a number of other schools in the country which have "Wesleyan" in their title (there must be at least 30)--making it clear that that the Middletown version is not related to any of the others. At the bottom of the shirt is the most telling line...
...newfangled assembly line. By the mid-'20s Ford was producing a car every ten seconds. Price: as low as $265. Mobility was suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential of normal living." Even in the abyss of the Depression, families clung to their cars as the American emblem of self-respect...
...country in a rented car in search of love and lust. He finds both with a succulent female FBI agent who, although she has been sent to investigate him, is enchanted with his line of sexy talk. Aleshkovsky, who teaches a class in conversational Russian at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., says: "I speak foully because the Russian language is being driven to death by Central Committee propagandists, stinking journalists and censors. But they won't kill...
...Swatara. Three Mile Island also dominates the thoughts of people who live in the area's small towns and rolling farm lands. "I can't look at those things without remembering what happened five years ago," says Joan Start, who fled with her two small children from Middletown, Pa., to Ohio when the plant came close to a meltdown in March...