Word: midwesternisms
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...another new book, The Intelligent Parents' Guide to Teen-Agers (228 pp.; Paul S. Eriksson, Inc.; $3.95), Author Thelma C. Purtell, a Manhattan-based housewife with a Midwestern upbringing, quotes an old hand on an old problem: "Our youth now loves luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for older people. Children nowadays are tyrants. They no longer rise when their elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers." The author, Mrs. Purtell points out with undisguised glee, is Socrates, and the time some 2,400 years...
...past two years, the Faculty has refused NCAA invitations in protest of alleged abuses of recruiting practices among Midwestern colleges. Each time the Committee has made its ad hoc decision at the end of the season after receiving a definite...
...this picture-which was written by Inge but heavily edited and then directed by Kazan-a relatively simple story of adolescent love and frustration in a small Midwestern town has been jargoned-up and chaptered-out till it sounds like an angry psychosociological monograph describing the sexual mores of the heartless heartland...
...Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Democrats from 14 Midwestern states powwowed with National Chairman John Bailey, who praised to the skies the record of his own party and denounced that of the opposition. "John F. Kennedy needs the obstructionist Republican votes of the Midwest replaced by progressive Democratic votes," cried Bailey, "in order to carry out the program you and I adopted at our convention and placed before the voters in our campaign...
...nations is likely to increase. As part of the price of entry into the Market, Britain will probably have to give somewhat less preferential treatment to Australia, Canada, India and the other Commonwealth countries. As Brit ain buys less from them, they will buy less from Britain. Already some Midwestern manufacturers believe that Canada may quickly open up to more imports from the U.S. tool and die industry. On the other hand, there will be stiffer competition in markets of the Commonwealth from such Common Market powers as Germany, France and Italy...