Word: localism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though some national commercials may be only at the threshold of pain, the local variety tests the steel of man's capacity to endure. A local "30-minute" news program consists of twelve minutes of news and weather and 18 minutes of commercial blight. The deluge of drivel is often highlighted by a car dealer's hypocritical, Bible-waving sign-off: "Gaw bless ya 'n' yore luvved...
Despite these gestures, the white community has still pressured the school and the police to convict somebody. Anybody. The local Knoxville News-Sentinel has spoken of "black power intervention." Even the school's president mentioned students attending a "Black power meeting in Atlanta...
...complaints from local residents and from me too," Wiggins said, "about people climbing in trees and things like that. Motorcycle gangs hung out there. They threatened pedestrians and motorists on Dunster Street...
...Freedom Machine that none of the organizers had any idea where the Who actually was. "They could be anywhere," he said. "In this business everybody lies. The manager of a group will call up from San Francisco and say they're being held up at the local Turnpike...