Word: midwesternizing
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...Good morning, Americans, this is Paul Harvey." That clarion Midwestern voice, heard in two daily 15-minute blocks for 58 years, was its own time machine; it carried listeners back to the golden age of radio. The opinions Harvey expressed were old-fashioned as well--politically and socially conservative, the musings of a grandpa who had seen it all. When Harvey died at 90 on Feb. 28, he took the history of radio with...
...This is Paul Harvey." That clarion Midwestern voice was its own time machine; it carried listeners back to radio days of yore, when a distinctive vocal performance was as important as good looks are in TV news today. The opinions Harvey expressed were old-fashioned as well: politically and socially conservative, the musings of a grandpa who's seen it all - or, as he put it, "In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these." It is hardly an exaggeration to say that when Harvey died at 90, on Saturday, at his winter...
...gave her enough to raise her kids and put a roof over the head of any friend or relative who happened to hit a rough patch. She left that job after eight years for the Kansas City office of Gateway computers, which was then a booming enterprise with a Midwestern flavor. There, Stevens rose through the ranks from customer service into sales. In her best year, she racked up so much overtime that she outearned her supervisor, grossing some $42,000 - not far from the middle of the pack of U.S. incomes. And if she sometimes spent too freely...
...cupcakes into otherwise unrelated conversations. Witnessing withdrawal symptoms when forced to replace cupcakes with French pastries during my junior fall abroad in France.And then, I embraced the obsession.As one of the countless Harvard undergraduates living in New York last summer, I leapt at the chance to leave my Midwestern roots and live in the country’s most populous city. But beyond the world-famous museums, endless crowds, and innumerable clubs, Manhattan became my cupcake haven. When friends came to visit, I unknowingly turned our tour of the city into a cupcake walking tour. Interested in eating brunch near...
...minded academics. In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed several professors to his administration, including the University of Chicago’s Paul Douglas and Columbia’s Rexford Tugwell. Like Obama’s aides, these scholars shared a common nightmare: a depression like the one that devastated Midwestern farmers in the 1920s...