Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While all Chile watched for a week, 140 politicos poured into Coihueco to electioneer. The supply of fowl for the favorite local dish, cazuela de pava (turkey casserole), quickly ran out. and the wineshop had to replenish its stocks three times. The two spinsters who own Coihueco's only telephone took to their beds with aspirin, while reporters endlessly cranked the phone's old-style bell magneto. Business boomed. "Ah, to have elections every month!" said the merchants...
...they apply to a crusade. Last year, after the city desk picked up news of a $51,000 bank robbery, the papers sent out two-way radio cars to chase the police and the fleeing robber. Their coverage of the chase won the staff the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting "under pressure of deadlines." At the head of that 220-man staff is Publisher Sevellon Brown, 66, who has bossed the papers for the past 32 years...
...soul because it was fascinated by means, forgetful of ends; ("Men, I think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.") Sir Walter Scott, defending Scotland's ancient laws against Bentham's passion for reform, warning that local tradition could not be erased without damage, writing the Waverley Novels as tracts for conservatism, as reminders of the moral debt that the present owed to principles of liberty and order won by the past; Disraeli, the supple and imaginative politician, yielding with brilliant grace to necessary change, thwarting the mechanical...
...more lurid struggle was going on. John Randolph, pain-ridden, drink-ridden, drug-ridden, and yet the clearest head in Congress, was fighting for local rights against the anti-conservative growth of central power. John C. Calhoun, quenching his own burning ambition, was busy on his unpopular formulation of minority rights against "the tyranny of majorities." Nathaniel Hawthorne was throwing his almost obsessive consciousness of sin into the bland and smiling face of the growing optimism...
...slavery was not a conservative institution. Superficially a throwback, it was more truly an innovation, a creature of expediency, begot by the cotton gin on anti-conservative ideas of economic determination. The ante-bellum South prattled Calhoun's words, wallowed in Walter Scott, spoke the noble language of local rights and traditions. But it acted, in the crisis, out of the motives of the pocketbook, according to the way Bentham and Marx said men must...