Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.N.M. (which simply changed its name and continued the boycott), and arrested its top leaders. But the movement ran into another kind of resistance when street food stalls refused to sell to African women who have abandoned Buganda custom by wearing chic dresses and combing their hair. Replied one local lady, in a remark that deserves a durable place in the language of the battle of the sexes: "If they boycott us, we'll girlcott them...
Politically, the islands followed France to the left after World War II, never made the Gaullist swing back. As members of local governing councils, the islanders elect a Gallic mixture of Communists, Socialists and left-centrists. But the Communists, who control about 25% of the vote in Martinique, 40% in Guadeloupe, carefully steer clear of the expectable cries for independence. The wisdom of their caution was plainly proved last year when the islanders gave Charles de Gaulle's agree-or-get-out Fifth Republic referendum an overwhelming...
Back in New Brunswick, where he grew up, Britain's peppery Lord Beaverbrook put up at Fredericton's Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday...
...when the company began to fret that its papers were furthering its image as a monopolist, it toned them down, tried to shape the news more by selecting than slanting or denouncing. Events harmful to Anaconda were either ignored or downplayed ; the papers even began to avoid all local controversies...
...Folding Money"). But he is no cynic, and he cross-questions would-be disillusioners sharply: "Now accordin' to you the newspapers ain't reliable. Is The Times lies? But if it's gonna lie anyway, why is it so borin'?" At eleven, Horatio knew "the local civics of the vice squad ... In architecture, how to make time bombs; in interpersonal relations, how to make zip guns ... In philosophy he knew that the Future Lies Ahead of Us, yet-alas-One Thing Leads to Another...