Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cole found that Fargoans do their homework. "Before meeting me," she says, "one businessman insisted on doing a computer data-base search of all the articles I ever wrote." But to Cole, once a "jaded, guarded New Yorker," Midwestern charm has proved contagious; she felt at ease with her subjects. In turn, they readily offered clues of the coming budget cuts to TIME's Fargo north decoder...
...WOULD NOT HAVE THOUGHT/ DEATH HAD undone so many ." wrote Dante of his descent into the inferno. What was most remarkable, in the aftermath of Oklahoma's sorrow, was that the people were not undone; the sturdy cliches about Midwestern fortitude came to life as an entire city refused to buckle in grief. "We hate and despise the people who did it," said Senior District Judge Fred Daugherty, who survived the blast in his courthouse office next door to the federal building. "But we're a strong and simple folk. We'll rebuild and roll with this thing...
...huge Midwestern agricultural college of 37,000 students, where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," conduct research on plant pathology and soils science and read papers on "The Use of Strain-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies to Model the Field Spread of Soybean Mosaic Virus...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley's campus satire (Knopf; 414 pages; $24) is centered on Moo U, a huge Midwestern agricultural college where professors are funded by "Mid-America Pork By-Products," an inventor moos after suffering a "brain attack" and secretaries sell Amway products by telephone. "As jaunty and straightforward as its title, 'Moo' allows Smiley to turn literary and stylistic cartwheels all around the gym," saysTIME critic Pico Iyer. "It is rather like one of those comic novels in which John Updike gives himself a holiday from more draining work...
These are exciting times for Republicans, exciting times indeed. Why, either of these two organizations could lay the foundation for the Republicans' future on campus! Yes, the capacity to lead a tiny fraction of a population equivalent in size to a tinier midwestern town surely lies ahead for one of these brave groups...