Word: heartland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David Rhodes, in a brilliant first novel called The Last Fair Deal Going Down, shows he knows about the Midwest. Because Rhodes grew up out of it, loving it and hating it, a strong and peculiar relationship to the heartland pervades his book. Picking the hardcover up from the shelf--stark black lettering looming, out from a staring white with the braille letter punched neatly underneath, you can leaf through and get a quick sense. The copyright page announces that the novel is "translated from the braille by David Rhodes," although Rhodes is not blind. The inside leaf is bereft...
...scarce as deadpan reporting in the National Lampoon. The venerable news agency will try to change that beginning this week by syndicating "The Phoenix Nest," which ran for 14 years in Saturday Review before Norman Cousins left the magazine. Martin Levin, who edits the column, thinks that the heartland is ready for some topical humor because "the little old lady from Dubuque is now in touch with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence of insect parts in food: "Instead of complaining...
Those acts of escalation, embodied in daily waves of U.S. bombers aimed at Hanoi's heartland over a period of two weeks, had left the capital of North Viet Nam a stricken city, rapidly emptying of people, without electricity and in some places water, many of its streets and even whole quarters smashed and cratered by the ferocity of daily U.S. bombing raids. Once neat one-story houses lay flattened or lurched at odd angles, roofless and windowless. On one street, a young worker in a red helmet stared numbly into a pit that was once his home...
Hobson grew up in segregation's heartland, Birmingham, the son of a shopkeeper and a schoolteacher. As a pilot in World War II, he flew 35 missions over Europe and won three Bronze Stars. After the war he earned an engineering degree at Alabama's Tuskegee Institute and a master's degree in economics at Howard University. He then spent 20 years as a Government employee, ending up as an economist with the Social Security Administration before turning his attention full time to the problems of Washington's black community...
...NIXON'S OPPONENT were another man of corrupted sensibilities, we could rightfully despair. But George McGovern is a decent man. Pitted against a President who spins lies and breaks lives with extravagance, McGovern, despite the claims of his opponent, emerges as a sober and honest representative of the American heartland...