Word: localize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...then, the pressure of a coalition of common sense had proved too much for Dr. William McCord, director of the Medical College Complex and a stubborn opponent of union recognition. Governor Robert McNair had long been demanding a peaceful conclusion. The local business community wanted an agreement, and the Nixon Administration sought to produce an acceptable formula. Then, at the urging of federal mediators and a newly formed citizens committee, talks began. They featured an interesting extra ingredient. In the middle of one session, Dr. McCord was summoned to take a telephone call from White House Aide Harry Dent, former...
...General to assign federal examiners to observe elections in counties covered by the act. Most important, it forbade the affected states and counties to adopt new voting laws and procedures without the approval of the U.S. Attorney General, and thus placed on the states the burden of proving that local laws were not discriminatory. The effect on voting was spectacular. Almost 600,000 Negroes were added to voter lists in the seven states. In Mississippi, Negro registration increased by more than...
...have fallen intolerably short of providing that proof. As of today, we have used only about 200 of the 1500 new units allocated to the Authority by the Federal Government. The Modernization Program for Public Housing, approved only this month, took seven full months to make its way through local and Federas agencies. I think we must all commit ourselves to the simple but forceful position articulated by the late Senator Robert Kennedy in response to the same kinds of problem: we find this unacceptable, and we must do more. I propose that we do it in the following ways...
...Harvard has beaten the M.I.T. boat twice this year, and should expect little trouble from the London Rowing Club, which leads a flock of local English entries. A west German eight is also competing and the presence of the Garda Siochana, a boatload of husky Dublin policemen, is not unexpected...
Technically, the film is little more than primitive art. Made in 1964, it was withheld during a five-year battle between co-producers. The slow dissolves, the gross use of filters to turn day into night, are rarely used today. Moreover, the local color is often put in by rote, as when Milo philosophizes, "Cities 'n' houses . . . come between us 'n' God," or when George addresses the camera in an arch epilogue. Yet The Fool Killer remains valid for two reasons. In its picaresque exploration of a naive, vanished America, it meanders into the Twain tradition...