Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trickle into Stream. In such local campaigns India's nationalist Mahasabha Party is doing its best to win back Hindus who have converted to Christianity. So far only a few have trickled back to Hinduism. But this tiny trickle is showing signs of growing into a stream. Next month the Mahasabha begins a nationwide drive for reconversion. And last week a six-man committee appointed by the state of Madhya Pradesh charged that Christian mission activity is "part of a uniform world policy to revive Christendom for the re-establishment of Western supremacy, and is not prompted by spiritual...
...horse to their esteemed water, the Bourbouliens made him drink. By last week he was taking his medicine like a man, frisking around almost like a race horse. Just about everybody was overjoyed, impatient for the day when they could get down a bet-everybody, that is, but the local Poujadists. They plastered the town with posters: "Bourbouliens, whom are they making a fool of? If poor little Pyrame is wheezing or broken-winded, there's a way to deal with him-slaughter him! . . . Bourbouliens, are you going to remain untouched when thermal services are frankly insufficient for adults...
Most everybody proclaims taciturn Glenn a local hero except his wife (Jeanne Crain), who mutters darkly of Glenn's troubled past (seems his father was shot by a fast gun) and the evils of gunslinging. Next day Glenn offers up his weapon on the church altar, explaining that he must skip town because "trouble collects around a fast gun." Too late. Enter bellicose Brod, hankering to drill Glenn. As the congregation sings Holy, Holy, Holy, Glenn dutifully straps on his holster for the showdown. As Miss Crain mumbles after the fireworks, "I guess that takes care of everything...
Ella grows up to a joyless marriage to a decent local grocer. She tends store, she raises her nephews, she keeps house and plays bridge when she has to. But her neighbors bore her, the birth of a daughter fails to enrich her unsmiling nature, and neither good times nor bad, drought nor plenty seem to offer any real excuse for living. Author Siebel kills off her characters with adding-machine indifference. Mother goes. Then the favorite nephew dies in World War II. Finally, Ella herself methodically swallows a bottle of sleeping pills, rinses her water glass, and lies down...
...Children's Hour. In Springfield, Ohio, Mrs. Rosa Apone put a classified ad in the local paper-"Child Care, hour, day, week. Inexperienced, unreliable, unreasonable rates, no references"-next day got 50 phone calls from interested parents...