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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Bloomington Days: Town and Gown in Middle America

Bloomington Days: Town and Gown in Middle America

Cronin, Blaise

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 1468539450
ISBN13: 9781468539455
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 10 2012
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Frat boys who think Mario Lanza is an Italian sports car; journalists who consider Man arrested for blowing mucus from nose at an officer a news story. Welcome to Bloomington: a world of grey cells and limestone, catfish and cheerleaders, binge drinking and bigots, Ockham's razor and buzz cuts. This is the tiny college town where Alfred Kinsey catalogued gall wasps before stinging a nation into belated sexual awareness. If you're gay or Greek, love opera or hoops, Bloomington is heaven on earth; we have as many same-sex couples as sorority sisters, as many divas as athletes. Welcome to my home, a quixotic mix of small-town life and larger than life campus, squirreled away in the flatlands of Middle America, where torpor is sometimes mistaken for nirvanic serenity, irony for insult and ethnographic dazzle for deep differences.

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