Word: sauk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notice is better than no notice at all, and so the folks in Sauk Centre, Minn., decided to keep right on making the best of that bad review native son Sinclair Lewis gave them 45 years ago. To prove that the place was never the philistine hotbed that the late author pictured in Main Street, the fictional "Gopher Prairie" celebrated Lewis' 75th birthday five years ago and started calling Main Street "the Original Main Street." Now they're heaping more coals of praise on old Red's head by raising $25,000 through the Sinclair Lewis Foundation...
...superstructure." The combination of "wealthy incentive, no limit to food, land, money, work, opportunity, smart and industrious citizens" would surely some day be followed by "great ideas-religion, poets, literature." Such was Whitman's wobbly esthetic, which he was to share with the leading citizens of Sauk Centre, Minn...