Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over the past half century Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, has built up an extraordinary reputation as one of the most active centers of ancient Greek study in the country. The prime stimulus was Miss Mabel Whiteside, who functioned as a local Thalia, Melpomene and Terpsichore rolled into one. She and her students of Greek put on some 40 productions of Greek drama in the original language. In the spring of 1954, she fittingly climaxed 50 years of teaching at Randolph-Macon by presenting, not one more Greek play, but three--Aeschylus' trilogy The Oresteia, the mighty...
Harvard employees this week are wishing good luck to one of their number who has been selected to compete at Gloucester in a $50,000 grand prize fishing tournament. Robert Bredin, Yard policeman, defeated other employees in a local contest which served to choose the representative to the final match...
...Prewar history taught in the schools has been discarded as false," he explained. "A race which loses its history becomes a rudderless ship. That's the dangerous position Japan is in today. To get out of it, the Japanese must look facts in the face." To the local citizens who have always considered themselves heaven-sent. Takikawa bluntly said: "We will not distort or slant our findings to please you. If this sounds cold, it's because there's nothing colder than pure scientific research...
...fact-finding task force had found not a shred of evidence to support the legend. After a brief look at a stone tablet engraved with what the people called "god writing." the archaeologists dismissed it as being "only about three centuries old-probably the work of some local mountain hermit." But the leaders of Shinto, the indigenous Japanese religion with roots closely bound to the legend, seemed unconcerned about what the scientists would find. "Whatever historical facts the scientists find cannot destroy the spiritual truths of our religion." said one. "any more than scientific analysis of miracles destroys the truths...
Despite his deep interest in the ancient and the Oriental, Seattle's Fuller firmly believes that "it is a museum's duty to support local people and to spur local art of quality." As a result, he has played a key role in promoting the Northwest's regional school, which includes such top artists as Tobey, Graves, Kenneth Callahan and Guy Anderson. One Seattle art dealer summed up Patron-Director Fuller's contribution with feeling: "Dr. Fuller has brought art to the Northwest and the art of the Northwest to the world...