Word: localizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visitors lingered by the graves of their fallen comrades, and in the vil lage squares, local musicians played tunes of glory. Most of the returning warriors, however, sought to revive their memories on the Normandy beaches - Omaha, Juno and Utah. Some brought their families, and under a bright, sunny sky, they tried to describe the all-or-nothing assault upon Hitler's Festung Europa. For many it was the second longest...
Then, says Mailer, there would be delegated "some real power to the neigh borhoods." This would include "power with their local boards of education, power to decide about the style and quality and number of the police force they want and are willing to pay for, power over the Department of Sanitation, power over their parks." There could be "vest-pocket campuses" built by students in abandoned buildings, restoring a sense of personal involvement that is lost in the large university campuses. Early in his campaign, blithely exaggerating to dramatize his point, Mailer proclaimed: "We'll have compulsory free...
Ditto was called to Detroit just prior to the 1967 riots by a coalition of 36 mainly white Protestant and Catholic churches on the East Side to set up a grass-roots organization. Today, with a staff of five, he operates ESVID on $65,000 a year from local businessmen and churches and has also received a $50,000 grant from New Detroit...
That, too, would be reckless, for on neither China nor Czechoslovakia are the Russians likely to have their way at the conference. Communism has existed too long, embraced too many diverse peoples, adapted to too many local needs and seen too many second-and third-generation visions for the monolith ever to be reassembled again. The descendants of the 1917 Revolution are mutants, dedicated to making Communism ?their Communism?safe in a world of diversity. It is disturbing that the men in the Kremlin do not understand that, or cannot accept it. In demanding that the parties...
...wise, even if it were legal, for the university to spend its funds on the scores of community-improvement projects that have from time to time been recommended to its attention. The university, it is sometime said, should support "community projects" by helping finance consumer cooperatives, Negro businesses, local cultural programs, neighborhood organizations, school innovations, and the like. Many of these projects are worthy of support; some might even fall within the educational purposes of the university; a few might be carried out without forcing Harvard to choose among competing community claimants for Harvard funds. But we believe that...