Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marx rushed on for help; the Broennimanns huddled together four days and nights through a raging blizzard. Marcus feared that his feet might have to be cut off. But last week, carried to a hacienda at the foot of Salcantay, Broennimann was resting with the comforting assurance from a local doctor that amputation would not be necessary...
...stones in a kind of veneration, calling them "growing stones" or "motherstones." Superstitions had gathered around them. In Oxfordshire they were shunned after dark; a weird lady was supposed to sit on them at midnight to comb her grey hair. One stone built into a church carried a strange local legend. A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop. So the church was built on the hill, and the stone stayed with...
...Benedictines of Salem encourage Indian Christians to keep as much of their native custom as possible, e.g., Christian brides do not wear wedding rings, but tie a thread around their necks as Hindus do. The monastery itself has fitted snugly into the life of the surrounding communities. Local farmers now come there to get medicine for their sick and to look over the Catholic sanyasis' agricultural methods. Said one Salem Hindu: "They look more like our type of sanyasis. Maybe there's something in their religion." This is the kind of talk that Dom Philip likes to hear...
...like a Hindu holy man. He made converts among high-caste Hindus, but had to fight off the charges of apostasy made against him by literal-minded fellow priests. Similar missionary techniques were used earlier in the century by Jesuits in China, who followed the dress and manners of local Confucian scholars, and by Jesuits in Japan, who modeled their behavior on that of Buddhist priests...
...necessarily conducive to happiness. This discovery is made by a dyspeptic and crotchety old multimillionaire (Charles Coburn) who forsakes his bank deposits to move in with a quaintly colorful small-town family, where he not only finds peace of mind but also wins first prize in a local art exhibit with one of his paintings...