Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alger Hiss lie muted beneath the surface. The Eisenhower health issue has been knocked out by Ike's robust appearance, and the Nixon issue is undermined by Nixon's own high-level campaigning. There are, however, some intense regional issues, e.g., the farm program in the Midwest, local unemployment problems in such states as Indiana and Michigan, segregation in the South...
...being more didactic than the play, the movie most conspicuously lacks the understatement which the play's single set for instance, made possible. The camera ranges after Tom as he goes to the beach, the golf course, the school pajama party, and even to the rooms of Ellie, the local prostitute. The difference is that the movie's director, Vincente Minelli, seems intent to extract every bit of emotion, or--as the ads suggest--"sensitivity" from events that were only spoken of in the play. The apparent eagerness of both the writer and the director to exploit the scenes...
...apparent notice had been taken of some very respectable and highly pedigreed foliage in the Cambridge area. We spent most of Monday morning investigating, and we must report that neither the proud Department of Buildings and Grounds, nor the shining-haired City Council has mapped out a single local Leaf Tour...
Peter Novick, Columbia senior, and last year's president of the Columbia chapter, complained about the "lack of local autonomy" allowed by the national organization. "The whole general procedure on this and other actions has been arbitrary in not letting people express their own beliefs," he stated...
...past, the University was given no alternative but refusing to take part in a track meet where one of its members would have been barred because of race. But this season the basketball team could have played Loyola of New Orleans and Georgia Tech without infringing any local laws or regulations, or even enraging the less civilized elements of the populace. There are no Negroes on the basketball squad this year, and the question of race could have been ignored...