Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their opponents of forming an elite; it's one of the hoariest cliches of democracy. But Quayle was born not with a mere silver spoon but with a silver ladle in his mouth. He is the millionaire son of media millionaires, imbued with the deepest tribal mores of the Midwestern country club, raised to office by presidential patronage. For such a man to complain about elitism, and media elitism in particular, seems forced. There is something distinctly unbecoming about Quayle's efforts to present himself as a man of the people...
...dramatic narrative of Rusty Sabich, a deputy prosecutor in a large, Midwestern city who is accused of murdering his colleague and former mistress, became the subject of the blockbuster movie directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford...
...Harvard president said problems similar to those at Yale afflict Stanford and Columbia Universities, and said public institutions in New York, California and Illinois are "in very, very considerable trouble." He said Midwestern liberal arts colleges are also being hurt by the dearth of resources...
Quayle in part plays the Spiro Agnew role to Bush's Richard Nixon. But when Agnew went after the "nattering nabobs" and student protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...
...former Eliot master rejects accusations that he was the last guardian of Old Harvard, pointing to his Midwestern, public school background...