Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bedroom communities that sprawl around Boston, is the scene of a new form of social phenomenon-somewhat like the old town pump-that is coming to full flower in New England. In Duxbury's town dump, as in Lincoln's, Hingham's and Wayland's, local citizens who can well afford to pay for garbage removal prefer to haul away the week's trash in their own Chevrolets, Thunderbirds, Chryslers and Volkswagens. Thus, on every Sunday morning gather old friends-and new acquaintances-who dump their stuff, then stay around to exchange gossip, renew friendships...
Another phrase tossed around in both the first and second echeons of the leadership elite is "balanced program." Indeed, the HYDC has enjoyed enviable success in providing not only national and local speakers, but also coffee-hours, receptions, debates, and campaigning opportunities...
Claiming a "balanced program," the Council sponsors not only big-name speakers--such as Owen Lattimore and Ambassador Menshikov--but also political laboratories ("polilabs"), model UN Councils in local high schools, and even occasional television programs on WHDH. The group has an impressive list of faculty sponsors, ranging from Dean Bundy to Arthur M. Schlesinger...
Though a Deans' ruling says that "recognized organizations must maintain their local autonomy," making "all policy decisions without obligation to any parent organization," the Federalists are a chapter of the United World Federalists. Each year the Club "solemnly votes on whether to accept the national policy statement knowing that if we reject it, we would cease to be a chapter...
During the question period following his speech, Johnson criticized some Northern papers for viewing Southerners as "Tobacco Row types," while ignoring local problems such as segregated housing. According to Johnson, these newspapers attack the South in an effort to "show they are moral...