Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nixon boomlet has especially strong support among Southerners, as well as among Midwestern and Rocky Mountain conservatives, many of whom remain bitter over Romney's refusal to support Barry Goldwater. At the same time, party professionals of every hue are mindful of Nixon's yeoman efforts on the stump both in 1964 and 1966. Separate polls last week by the Associated Press and CBS each showed G.O.P. national committee men-or at least those who responded-preferring Nixon over Romney by 3-to-2 margins. The results, however, may be deceptive. "If you're really undecided...
Consider David's first run-in with nasty white duplicity. At Pengard, an "integrated" Midwestern college, David manfully rejects the homosexual advances of Randy Clevenger, Virginia-born scion of "Southrun" aristocracy. Before anybody can say "tea and sodomy," David himself has been accused of perversion by the effete Dean of Men, whose name, for Pete's sake, is Merriweather Goodhue. Only by the intervention of a tough but noble leader named "Bull" Evans does the poor kid clear himself. Evans simply hires a private eye to prove that Dean Goodhue and Clevenger have been in, well, cahoots...
...faculty, and to donors, both private and corporate. It has to project an image which will attract the best of all three. The University of Chicago does not have as much pure prestige as some of the Ivy League universities. Nor is it as way out as Berkeley. Being Midwestern, it is probably in the middle, and is trying hard to establish its own identity. Three factors will probably determine the outcome of this identity crisis -- the university's educational reputation, its Chicago neighborhood, and financial needs...
...nail down the donors. Operating on the rough rule that 90% of most drive proceeds will come from 10% of the donors, schools work on their wealthiest friends first. Early announcements of big gifts often entice other affluent donors to follow suit, although the approach has its hazards. One Midwestern multimillionaire kept complaining when a college stalled its announcement of his $100,000 gift; school officers could not tell him that they had expected $10 million and feared his example would induce every potential $100,000 donor to scale down his own gift...
...doctor of juridical science (S.J.D.). Moreover, there are actually two kinds of J.D. One is the automatic label that some schools now give to all graduates; the other goes only to those who graduate at the top of their classes. This has been the longtime practice at several leading Midwestern schools. The question is, how to tell the difference? Obviously by the quality of the graduate's training-in which case the argument is right back where it started...