Word: midwesternisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after twelve years of marriage to one wife, Indonesia's revered President Soekarno decided to take unto himself a second. Indonesia's Moslem clubwomen, surprisingly as jealous of female prerogative as those in any U.S. midwestern town, were icy with disapproval, but there was little they could do about it. Blessed by Islamic law and local custom, the nation's second First Lady, a divorcee of 32, was duly ensconced in the presidential palace at Bogor. Cleaving loyally to the first First Lady, 31-year-old Fatmawati, all that the indignant clubwomen could do was to snub...
...mere fact of the heretics' existence is taken by Congregationalist Kilde as a harbinger of better times to come. "Whatever the weather otherwise, it is springtime in Midwestern Lutheranism. The ice is beginning to break, the long, cold winter of dark dogmatism ... is beginning to wane...
...Last month at a midwestern...
Henry also noted that several meetings of regional groups, such as the midwestern Big Ten, have produced standard admission programs in the past, but this is the first move in the direction of standardization among eastern schools...
...together what rapid strides the Midwest is making, Iowa's Des Moines Art Center last week was exhibiting a rich cross section of art from Midwest collectors: 89 paintings and statues from 31 Midwest museums, colleges and universities and private collectors. The Des Moines show proves that Midwestern collectors do not stick exclusively to such safe 19th century American classics as George Caleb Bingham, George Inness and Thomas Eakins, and the Midwest's Big Three, Grant Wood, Thomas Benton and John Steuart Curry. They are also willing to bet their money on modern European masters-Braque, Matisse, Henry...