Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Modern pilgrims, like Novelist David Ely's Pierce ("Walking") Davis, have no such goal. Davis does not even have a fixed idea of what the Holy Land might be. An ordinary Midwestern auto mechanic with a wife and kids, he has only the urge to put one foot in front of the other and the vague though practical notion that if a common man engaged in such a common activity long enough, he could walk around the world...
...emerged this year as a formidable Crimson opponent, after the Terriers adopted a new intensive recruiting policy last winter B.U.'s large core of Eastern and Midwestern high school champions drubbed New England champion Springfield, 27-8, in an early season meet...
...hard to find. Mills himself, head of the powerful Ways & Means Committee, was the conservatives' favorite, but he has given up any thought of challenging Albert. A few liberal Congressmen wanted Boggs for the job. "I have been very keen for a contest over the speakership," says one Midwestern Democrat. "And I have been in favor of having Hale move up. This thing [Boggs' disappearance] has been a catastrophic blow. What it means is that we are apparently left without an alternative." A sampling taken since Boggs was declared missing indicates that Albert is now safe, and will...
...Eastern seaboard. His venerable Spalding putter--the one he used to ace out the guy from Columbia on the seventeenth hole--seven cases of Hamm's Beer his DKI sweatshirt, a wrinkled and somewhat threadbare plain jacket from J. Press York Street. New Haven, and one very blonde Midwestern girl--all of it went into a creaking and rather obscene '64 Thunderbird, the same one he had tried unsuccessfully to unload on this ensign from Harvard when he was in the Navy. It had become a ritual even down to the blank check he folded twice and tucked into...
...role on the world scene, it has produced a bitter domestic political atmosphere and a depraved Asian policy that the country cannot abandon. But Kennan combined it with a limited role for America. His comments on popular American culture imply no particular enthusiasm for it. And his discussion of Midwestern provincialism show little respect for the natives' capacity to manage their foreign affairs. He calls the region "a great slatternly mother, sterile when left to herself, yet immensely fruitful and creative when touched by anything outside herself." But he means this to be complimentary...