Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summarizing the vastly improved strength of the economy, the President said: "Factors that influence decisions on business capital outlays have become more favorable, and an upturn may already be under way. Residential construction outlays should contribute further to economic expansion. Combined outlays of federal, state and local government units will continue to rise...
...denied public school education since last September, when six white secondary schools were closed by Virginia's massive-resistance to Federal District Court integration orders. ¶ In Little Rock, Governor Orval Faubus, beginning his third term, called for a state constitutional amendment that would turn over state and local education funds to school districts which, in turn, would dole funds to each student. Pupils would then use the money to pay for their schooling elsewhere. And a state legislative committee, finishing its investigation of the integration crisis, reported with straight faces, that "there has been and now is subversion...
...found an Arts Center on a stretch of riverbank land adjoining Soldiers Field Road has come to seem less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
MeBAC argues that the CDF is the only local organization equipped to carry on a theatrical season of high artistic quality. But the fact is that the CDF has not produced a play since the summer of 1956, when it staged three very fine productions in Sanders Theatre. Mean-while Group 20 has been running for the past six summers with equally high marks from the critics...
MeBAC goes so far as to say that the Arts Center, far from damaging other local theatres, will stimulate all drama trade in the area. But the prestige of state support, which MeBAC would give to the Cambridge Drama Festival, would surely hamper the fund-raising and actor-recruiting programs so vital to organizations like Group 20 in competition with the CDF. And financial records show that competition between two repertory theatres in the Boston area means a loss for both...