Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chopping-up and brightening around the edges still hasn't altered much of Voice of America's bedrock mediocrity. VOA [Dec. 9] still sounds like some bureaucrat's idea of everyman's radio entertainment. I've had enough of interviews with Midwestern chicken farmers and the supercilious, you're-not-too-bright enunciation American announcers have been instructed to use. I'll take the BBC's thoroughly professional and human sound. Besides, their reception is a whole lot clearer...
Before he can say Baden-Powell, Scoutmaster MacMurray becomes a leading citizen of the small town that Producer Disney constructed long ago on the back lot of his studio-that typical Midwestern town where the California sun is so hot that the lawns need a fresh coat of green paint every day. He gets a job in the general store and marries the prettiest girl in town (Vera Miles). Unfortunately, Fred and Vera don't have children-possibly because Fred goes trotting off on so many overnight hikes-but they do perform a numbing number of good deeds...
...prolific cooperation began three years ago when Evans, a veteran Washington reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, approached Novak, a congressional reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and talked him into giving the column a try. Evans, who was close to the New Frontier, and Novak, a Midwestern Republican, hit it off from the start. Their work habits differ-Evans usually meets a source over breakfast; Novak prefers to make his contacts at lunch-but they pool their information. They take turns writing the column, and they edit each other. "We use each other as a sounding board," says...
With that track record, the Comptroller of the Currency finished his term and agreed to take a high position at an as yet unnamed Midwestern bank. Thereupon, President Johnson last week appointed a successor who everybody hopes will be just as effective but somewhat less abrasive than Saxon...
...lady sociologist (Diane McBain) who wants to interview him in depth, just to prove that her "analysis of the mating motive is right on the button." Still another (Deborah Walley) is a lady instrumentalist who offers him a mean rhythm section and something that in her wide Midwestern accent sounds like "goremay...