Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gleefully using such devices wherever possible, and speeding along in a clear, scholarly style, Gamow develops the universe from a primordial, exploding "something" to the currently popular, expanding, gravitationally unstable dust cloud. Then follows the accepted course through local condensations to the bare, rocky planets circling--about their central suns, and thence, by devious organic evolution, to mankind...
Students of German will have a chance to see the original version of Goethe's "Faust" this Saturday night, in a performance given by a travelling troupe of players from the Dartmouth German Club. The local performance is at 8:30 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre, with an admission fee of 75 cents...
...another industry--oil--walkouts have spread and the controversy is now nationwide. Local gas station owners report, however, that they will continue selling gas without limit since it is too early to determine whether a shortage will occur...
Outdoor observation on the local scene also hits an all-year high in this season. For about a buck, or an H.A.A. coupon, you can drag the fortunate fe- male to Soldiers Field and watch baseball college style. Then in the last of the fifth, when the score is 32 to 7, you can leave, pick up a case of beer, and join the cheering thousands along the river banks who wonder "which crew is Harvard...
Finally, for the lone wolf, there are always the countless local links, proving grounds for the development of a four-letter functional vocabulary...