Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...classmates, a New York businessman, is typical: "He was a quiet, self-contained, almost monastic type of student-always got his A. I would not have picked him as the man most likely to succeed-I would have picked him as head of the math department of some small Midwestern college...
...Blacken made the most adventurous move of his life, since the day he left home to come to Herr-varied. He gave up the career of a midwestern lawyer to follow his more generous emotions and take a more exciting job. As an executive of the Mayo Clinic, he established a reputation as an intelligent, generous administrator, and also brought himself to the attention of prominent Minnesota politicians. Nobody was very surprised when, in 1959, President Eisenhower appointed him to the Federal Court in Minnesota. As he wrote to his class in his Thirty-Fifth Report...
...competition of imports, businessmen are looking more and more to the Republican Administration for help. Unions, alarmed at growing unemployment, are similarly demanding that Washington halt the loss of jobs to low-wage countries. For example, U.S. companies have set up more than 200 electronics plants in Mexico, while Midwestern electronics workers have been discharged. Westinghouse buys TV sets from Japan; and Singer, the last company to make household sewing machines in the U.S., has reduced its domestic work force from 10,000 to 2,000. The complaints of business and labor are being echoed in Congress, which is considering...
...botched his first marriage long ago. He is separated from his second wife, Helen, one of those eager Midwestern emigrees who dote on Eastern intellectuals. He honed her critical intelligence to a straight-razor edge, and then his Galatea cut him up. Sheed scarcely needs to imply that two first-rate critics in one house is a brief description of hell...
...song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose Lee, Ann Corio and Rose La Rose...