Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole sequence takes only 90 minutes (breaks included); local Shakespeare lovers--and students--will find the production a worthwhile break from exam studying...
...Young Guys." Dropping vacation plans in Bangkok, Graham called in reporters, announced a plan to give five willing and able local enterprisers "the same chance I had when I was young." He wanted "a few young guys with good ideas and initiative who believe in private enterprise." Terms: a $5,000 Graham loan to get started, profits to be shared 50-50 until the borrower could buy out Graham by returning the original loan. Said Graham: "This is business, not charity...
...Education and Welfare Departments, at President Eisenhower's orders, selected 54 counties and three multi-county areas in the Southeast, Southwest, New England, along the Ohio River valley and in the Great Lakes area as laboratories in which to test a new idea. The big idea: to encourage local farm leaders, businessmen, clergymen and others to take over and work out their own farm-improvement plans, tailored to their own needs, with technical and loan assistance supplied by their state and the Federal Government...
...movie hints that deep similarities exist between the cozy orphanage and a Dachau-like state prison near by. Sal suddenly finds himself up to his downy cheeks in an escape engineered by two desperate jailbirds, whom he met and befriended while they were sweating over some local ditchdigging. Impressed into helping them make a swampy getaway, Sal gradually gets into his hardening skull the idea that no bad man is all bad. The corollary: some of society's watchdogs (such as sadistic Prison Warden J. Carrol Naish) and false heroes (the millionaire trucker) can be absolutely no good...
Inner Reality. This, probably the most offbeat novel of the season, and certainly Waugh's strangest, gains much of its quality from Waugh's rare knack of creating character and situation with the flick of a few words of dialogue. His ability to give airy nothings a local habitation and a name is untouched by the delusory subject matter. There is reality amid the hallucinations. Many standard Waugh phobias, e.g., journalists, book reviewers, evangelical clergymen, may be identified. In a prefatory note, the publishers state: "Three years ago Mr. Waugh suffered a brief bout of hallucination closely resembling...