Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pencil, has made Newhouse anathema to many old-line publishers, who consider him an absentee press lord, a businessman only casually interested in the papers themselves. But Newhouse can argue that he cares so much for the autonomy of his papers that he generally leaves editorial matters completely in local hands. A registered Democrat, Newhouse even leaves political stands untouched; e.g., in Syracuse, his Republican Post-Standard scraps with his Democrat-leaning Herald-Journal. One notable exception to his hands-off policy is the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, where he replaced a dozen top editorial staffers, slashed non-editorial expenses...
...swarming hunters have forced the local governments to impose restrictions to prevent depletion of game, and many an old hand mourns the change. One of them is Columnist Robert Ruark, who is respected by white hunters as one of the few sharpshooters among the amateurs. Currently on safari in Kenya, Ruark writes: "I should think it likely that this will be my last proper big safari, and the thought grieves me. What I bemoan mainly is the loss of the old, wild freedom when you could take off in almost any direction and find something exciting without having to check...
...expanded projects vary widely, but Stanford's is fairly typical; there, liberal-arts graduates will begin a 15-month program early in the summer by concentrating on the subjects they are to teach. During the regular school year, they will serve as practice-teaching "interns" in local high schools, receive salaries from the school districts, spend three hours a week in a seminar on teaching methods. They will study subject matter again during the second summer, receive California teaching certificates in time to begin classes in the fall...
...classrooms by graduate interns. The University of Wisconsin will tackle the problem at the core of the merit-pay controversy-how to decide which teachers are most effective. At Duke, graduates of 25 cooperating liberal-arts colleges will study toward master of arts in teaching degrees. Outstanding teachers from local schools will be released from other duties to supervise M.A.T. interns...
...character thus introduced by Novelist Naipaul (rhymes with highball) belongs to that growing family of ex-colonial heroes who have their feet firmly planted in the muck of local tradition and their heads lifted to the sweet smell of Western excess. But where such literary antecedents as E.M. Forster's Dr. Aziz and Evelyn Waugh's Emperor Seth burned with a hard heathen shame, Ganesh shoulders the white-collar burden with the happy ease of a born...