Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alas, Powdermilk Bagels, the brand that gives shy New Yorkers the strength to jump over subway turnstiles, was not among the sponsors. Garrison Keillor, the wandering Minnesota minstrel whose Prairie Home Companion variety show on public radio told tales of gentle eccentricity in a hard-to-find Midwestern hamlet called Lake Wobegon, says he has put shyness behind him. Just as well. Keillor, whose new American Radio Company of the Air fills the old P.H.C. Saturday-evening slot (6 to 8 p.m. EST), is now a New Yorker himself, an unstrained and wildly germinating seed in the Big Applesauce. Like...
Graciousness, Midwestern Style: The extended weekend in Nebraska was the site of two Harvard losses. After falling to host Nebraska, Harvard played well enough to upset All-American Ray Dudley and his Air Force cohorts, but the slick senior hit an off-balance jumper at the buzzer to seize the victory for the Falcons...
When I landed in Omaha, I was greeted by a warmness foreign to Logan Airport. The stereotype of Midwestern friendliness seemed so appropriate when compared with Boston's chilly, look-at-your-feet-when-you-walk-attitude. Passers-by smiled and said, "Hello...
Wilson, formerly vice president for research atthe University of Michigan, is credited withincreasing support for the Midwestern school bymore than $100 million during her years there. Andmany observers said at the time of Wilson'sappointment this June that her fundraisingexperience would be an asset to Radcliffe'sdevelopment efforts...
...have to have lived through an immense amount of agony and pain in order to relate to people who are suffering. I really care about what happens to people, and when I first began to read those letters, it was an eye-opener. I came from a very solid Midwestern Jewish home. You see, I led a very sheltered life. I had never seen a man hit his wife. I had never seen any drunkenness. I had never seen any poverty. I knew these things were happening, but they never happened to me. The mail grew...