Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imperialism . . . betrayed the people and helped the imperialists against the people . . . aped the ascetics . . . pretended, in a demagogic way, to be a supporter of Indian independence and an enemy of the British . . . Gandhism widely exploits religious prejudices . . ." Fuming, the Indian government prepared to take the matter up with the local Russian ambassador...
Both papers held a club over local businessmen by setting their ad rates jointly and by making national advertisers who wanted to buy space in one paper buy the same amount in the other. As a result of what a Mississippi court termed their monopolistic "subterfuge," both the News and Clarion-Ledger made an average profit of 18% on their total incomes, one of the highest newspaper profit margins...
...first $300,000, and then "it was one of those things that snowballed, with people just calling in and asking to buy stock without even being asked." Investors, who are limited to $25,000 each so that no one can control the paper, include everyone from local businessmen to schoolteachers, housewives, a Negro mail carrier, and one minister who invested his savings ($200) because "the state of Mississippi is too big for one family or one corporation...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...
...happened, he never got to the front, played in Army bands on the Coast and in the ETO (where he rarely traveled with fewer than three liberated pianos). He was home again in 1946, determined to be a composer. He played the piano in local joints and studied with France's famed Darius Milhaud at Mills College. Teacher Milhaud filled him with counterpoint and polytonality, fired him with the conviction that improvisation of jazz was as valid for him as the improvisation of toccatas and fugues was for Bach. "He told me," says Dave, "if I didn...