Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...midwestern friend Sean "Dustbowl State" Wissman, for example, politely inquired on these pages Tuesday what might be the possibility of Cal Ripken Jr. hitting...
...claim that the Holocaust never occurred has been spreading in America. The statement gets laundered, like dirty money, as it is passed along, especially to the young. A Midwestern mother, Jewish, hired a 15-year-old gentile girl to help with the children one summer. The mother had a number of books on her shelves about the Holocaust. The bright 16-year-old said one day, in a nice way, as if stating simple fact: "Why do you have so many books on that? It never happened, you know...
Back in the Eisenhower era, as one undergraduate put it, Yalies viewed the future as "Stairway to Heaven, moving up through the clouds on a blissful escalator." Trillin, a strangely appealing mixture of Jewish arriviste and Midwestern hick, entered college without ever having heard of Dostoyevsky or Greenwich, and he figured to stop ascending early in the journey. Denny was expected to keep on climbing. Champion athlete, top-ranking student, Rhodes scholar, subject of a Life magazine piece, he was discussed seriously as a potential candidate for the presidency. Forty years later, after a life of obscurity and pain...
...animal-language experiments had an awards dinner, the prize for best accent would go to the befeathered Alex. The parrot acquired his Midwestern accent from his mentor, Pepperberg. She became intrigued by the language work with great apes in the 1970s and decided to examine the abilities of an animal with an entirely different brain structure. She chose parrots in part because they can actually talk and because studies had established that the birds could perform as well as chimps on some psychological tests, suggesting that brain size is not the only determinant of mental ability...
...Paint Columns" tells us, or is she his lonely step-mother, as we read in "The Search for Water"? Is Martin a runaway boy who shows up at John's Kansas house one day, or a grade school teacher in New York? An obscenely rich club-hopper or a Midwestern night watchman who barely can scrape together enough for rent...