Word: midwesternisms
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...finally to top out; indeed, banks' prime rate, or basic charge on business loans, began inching down. Manhattan's First National City Bank trimmed its prune a quarter of a point, to 11¼%, as did Southwest Bank of St. Louis and First National of Miami. Two Midwestern banks with the nation's highest prime rates also made reductions: Chicago's First National, from 11¾% to 11.6%, and Lansing's Michigan National, from 11¾% to 11¼%. The lowest prune rate was posted by Boston's small Harbor National Bank: 11%, down...
...novel, of course, is powerful by innuendo. Nick Carroway's sense distills the sense of Gatsby, and Carroway's values--the superior morality of the Midwestern small town Christian conscience, the nostalgia for the old American orders under eclipse--judge West Egg. But this movie doles out portions of the narrative like a mess sergeant in an army canteen, everybody gets some: Mr. Gats gets some of Carroway's, Carroway is made to speak what had been silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery...
...Minnesota in the late 19th century. Singing families developed their own repertories of music and comedy. Two young New Yorkers, David Chambers and Mel Marvin, have researched the tradition of such troupes, studied their sheet music, old newspaper clippings, family photographs and journals, and distilled them into a modest Midwestern saga...
...lovely diffidence-the tunes, which sometimes sound like wholesome Kurt Weill, the hopefully pantheistic lyrics ("Speak to the earth, and it shall answer"), the audience-participation magic show, the light travesty of a temperance play. It is still a Midwestern country road show, a spectacular only of the local Grange hall. But it is wonderfully sufficient...
Though teens clearly run the show at most Midwestern rinks, many physical fitness buffs have taken to the sport, which is easier on the ankles than ice-skating. Says one enthusiast: "You can roller skate for five hours without getting tired." Gutsy oldsters are also gradually invading the rinks, eager to brush up on fancy footwork learned back in the '30s-notably the "spread eagle" and the "mohawk," turning movements used to reverse direction. The management often obliges by playing such nostalgic tunes as Tea for Two, Rambling Rose and Heart of My Heart...