Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Romans that which is conformable to reason, to the best side of human nature, to an elevated morality, to practical good sense, to general convenience. It is simple and rational, as opposed to that which is artificial or arbitrary. It is universal, as opposed to that which is local or national. It is superior to all other law because it belongs to mankind as mankind, and is the expression of the purpose of the Deity or of the highest reason...
...Charlotte, N.C. one evening last week, as the local school board gathered in the high-ceilinged city council chamber, one member stood up to offer a prayer: "We beseech thee, O Lord, cast thy shadow before us on this night of decision. We pray for those who will disagree. Enter into their minds and hearts, grant them enlarged understanding." A few minutes later came the board's announcement: acting in concert, school boards in Greensboro (pop. 87,100), Winston-Salem (115,800) and Charlotte (158,800) had approved "on their own merits" certain Negro applications (total...
...hotels, was designed to take the heat off any single board. In large part, the decision stemmed from self-interest. North Carolina attorneys feared that without any proof of integration the U.S. courts (as they did in Virginia) would strike down the state's 1955 law, making local boards responsible for assigning pupils to schools as a subterfuge for maintaining segregation. Moreover, state schoolmen felt that North Carolinians would accept do-it-yourself integration more readily than the inevitable court-ordered kind. Nevertheless, in making the first break in the hardcore South's stand against public-school integration...
Bernard Shaw is having quite a week, for he had last night three different productions on the local boards. As the fourth event of the Harvard-MIT Summer Series, Kresge Auditorium was the scene of the formal world premiere of Dear Liar, "a play for two vioces" by Shaw and Mrs. Patrick Campbell...
...addition she will perform in its first local presentation her own composition, Recitative and Aria, written in Paris...