Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head upstairs to where Maddox is scheduled to address several midwestern delegations. The elevator fills up and an elderly man shoots me a quick "Hello young fella." I bait him. "Mr. Maddox, what would you have done if this was 1968 and there were demonstrators downstairs?" "I think Mayor Daley did the right thing," Lester Maddox says, emerging from the elevator to tell the crowd "regardless of where everyone else stands today, I'll still be Lester Maddox tomorrow...
Missouri, the University of Minnesota, and many large Midwestern universities, for example, prohibit professors from using textbooks that they've written. There are a few instances of professors working their way around this rule--and then, only under the condition that the publishers set aside the royalties from these books and donate the money to scholarship funds...
This spells trouble for Ford, who needs the farm vote, particularly in his Midwestern home base. For one thing, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has been urging farmers for several years to expand production. Also, they are still smarting from the embargoes on grain exports imposed by the Nixon and Ford administrations in an effort to stem food price increases...
...Chaucer of The Canterbury Tales appears only in the author's purloined formula: toss some interesting strangers together and stir. The plot is launched by English Professor Rigby Short, whose opera libretto, $4000, is about to be performed at a large Midwestern university. The locale resembles the University of Iowa, where Bourjaily has been associated with the writers' workshop for the past 16 years. (In 1969 an opera for which he wrote the libretto, $4000, was staged there.) The novel's cast is composed of a gaggle of graduate students, some local singers and several professionals from...
...Northeastern and Midwestern sections of the U.S. once glowed with industrial and agricultural riches. In many places today, however, the two regions have the shabby look of an unsuccessful middle age. One reason: the Federal Government, through its spending and tax policies, has been persistently draining wealth from the areas and transferring it to the once neglected but now prospering South and Southwest...