Word: midwesternisms
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...tone of most of them was thoughtful, decent and concerned. They ranged from college undergraduates anticipating families of their own to a Midwestern farmer who is head of a line of ten living children, 42 grandchildren, 48 great grandchildren. Many told their hopes and plans for having more children. Many more discussed the contribution they expected their children to make some day to their country's future. Over all they expressed a vigorous satisfaction with a family life that, despite its difficulties, they "wouldn't exchange for anything...
...another Midwestern teacher who made Fine realize what his statistics about overcrowded and rundown schools meant. Said she: "When it's cloudy we strain our eyes or wait until a little more sunlight comes in. If we had electric lights we could do much more work here...
...Kansas City Star, recovering from the first shutdown in its 66 years, knew just how they felt: it always does. In its Midwestern heartland the Star is much more than an institution: it is part of the bloodstream, a landmark as indigenous as the Kaw River, waving wheat, stubbled prairie, Prohibition and Republicanism...
What is left of the article, after the south has been disposed of, might well be informative reading to alert Americans. While admiring American skyscrapers, washing machines and personal vitality, Ehrenburg is vexed by the lack of tradition, midwestern Babbittism and political naivete of the people. Ehrenburg is offended by the adolescent anties of Lions' Club cheerfests, by the arbitrary morality of the film industry, by the provincial view of culture and the arts, which, he fears, are secondary in the American mind to drug stores and efficient plumbing. These views are not original; Kipling and Dickens and expatriates...
...accomplishment and that of Henry James: "Both men separately held in respect the progress of self-realization. ..." The authors esteem Robinson's verse, which they consider as good as Thomas Hardy's, and Robert Frost's "Horatian serenity," as much as Ezra Pound & Co. and the Midwestern awakenings of Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters...