Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this reviewer grew up on the plains of Kansas, and although she hates to cop out on questions of social relevance, she figures that the playwright wouldn't set any store by the understanding of a Midwestern hick. For Horovitz the Bronx seems to be emblematic of a couple of delinquents hazing an uncomprehending immigrant and each other on a street corner after everyone else in town has scurried into their apartments for the night. No doubt, then, hailing from Kansas means you've whiled your precious life away watching the wheat push and sway up from the clodded earth...
Confusion marked much of the night as races in several Midwestern states, including Ohio and Illinois, proved too close to call...
Since Jimmy Carter is party of the Kennedy-etc. conspiracy, the party claims, the only hope--since Lyndon LaRouche, the Labor Party's presidential candidate no longer expects to win--is that President Ford will be guided by midwestern businessmen, who understand the need for an international debt moratorium and for an emphasis on technology...
...tight smiles, loose shoes and a warm place to regret his oral indiscretions"; Johnny Carson's desire for "a tight announcer, a loose audience and a warm place to do my monologue"; Washington stand-up comedian and syndicated columnist (100 papers) Mark Russell's information that Midwestern Wasps like Butz and Ford want only "no sex, tight shoes and pay toilets...
...employed formula that has generated such high and low art as The Great Gatsby and Auntie Mame. This first novel, The End of the Party, by Marvin Barrett, is yet another variation on the same theme. Here, the part of the glittering mentor is played by Dexter Hillyer, a Midwestern-born artist who rose to fame in the 1920s as a chic illustrator. Hillyer is seen through the few but vivid memories of his godson Emerson Mercer. The stages of his life are marked by his shifting reactions to the older man-from youthful idolatry through later disappointment to, ultimately...