Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pity the poor taxpayer. He is caught between the Democrats, the Republicans and local politicians in their frantic political maneuvering to outdo each other in using his money to spend him out of the recession...
Stage Struck. Talented local girl finally makes good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...ignorant, stubborn, anxious, self-righteous and poor. Papa is a Swedish immigrant, a brooding, phlegmatic day laborer who can rarely get a day's work. In the evenings he takes to his Bible as to a painkilling drug. Mama works at home pasting paper bags together for a local factory. She keeps a kind of debit account with God, believing that she owes heaven a prayer of gratitude whenever life on earth is remotely bearable. The parents arrange things so that the boy sees his preacher once a week and his doctor perhaps twice a year...
Paul Koby, local photographer who submitted the complaint to Brine, said last night that he would rely on Brine's judgement as to whether any action should be taken or not. "If the President does not feel there is any worry," he said, "well, I leave it up to him to decide what to do about...
Going to Gilbert and Sullivan openings at Harvard is in some ways like watching a juggler perform. The local players have already performed marvelous feats and one wonders if they can keep it up. It is pleasant indeed to report that The Sorcerer meets the high standard previously set by the G & S Players...