Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aspiring businessmen will make many interesting sorties into Harvard Square and vicinity in an attempt to sell ads to local merchants. They will also learn many elements of business practice which will prove valuable after college...
...yesterday thrust a monumental task on the shoulders of three local academicians during a telecast called "Destiny Makers." Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, professor of History, Donald Bigelow, professor of history at Brandeis, and John H. Laverly, professor of philosophy at B.U., undertook to determine the names of the five most influential Americans of the first half of the 20th century...
...situation is humorous, and the spoof of prudery is carried off well. The local home guard captain feels it his duty to protect the morals of the people and a typically severe Calvinist mother tries to prolong her son's abstention. Happily, neither can alter human nature. Basil Radford as the self-important captain and Jean Cadel as the silver-cord keeping mother, are quite adequate, as is Joan Greenwood, who provides the film's sexual interest...
...certificate, got himself a job teaching high-school English, Latin and French. He quickly made friends with the normally reserved down-East folk; they liked his jolly ways, his eagerness to participate in North Haven affairs. He formed a Sea Scout troop, ran Sunday school at the local Baptist church with a gentle, knowing hand. At Christmastime, he rented a post-office box in the name of Santa Claus, gathered up letters from the children, wrote genial replies to each one. bought and distributed gifts for the poor. And then, one day last week, the state police came and quietly...
...academicians want the Festival to concern itself mainly with experimental theater and plays that might not have the chance to be produced elsewhere. They want something smaller, with local talent, free from the exigencies of financial success...