Word: localizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rodeo's Home. Second of three sons of a patient, pious couple of German-Lutheran descent. Lyman Lemnitzer was born Aug. 29, 1899, in Honesdale, Pa. (pop. 6,000). Thrifty father William worked up in 53 years at the local shoemaking plant from odd-job boy to vice-president, built a fortresslike house on the right bank of the Lackawaxen River (one small bridge later named after Lyman). Poorer kids ate butter, but the Lemnitzer boys got their bread dry or lard smeared. They dutifully did their chores (dishwashing, lawn mowing), earned their spending money at part-time jobs...
...Commanded Eighth Army (1955) and U.N. forces (1955-57) in the delicate cease-fire period when the U.S. nursed its local allies (South Korea, Japan, Nationalist China) into shape to carry more of their own defense load. Specifics: he put down South Korean riots against U.S. troops (provocation: the U.S. agreed to Communist truce supervisors), spearheaded the Defense Department's successful efforts to solve the land crisis which threatened permanent political unrest on Okinawa, the U.S.'s main Far East defense position...
...People are dressed, as elsewhere in the Soviet Union, darkly, adequately. In Birobidzhan locally produced shoes and accessories are perhaps a bit more stylish. The Trans-Siberian stops for ten minutes four times a day in each direction, and as the traveler waits for the train at the little station, a local culture official asks whether there are vegetables to be had in America...
...scatter the welcoming crowd with tear gas, made his way with difficulty to the house of Republican Deputy Riza Salci. It was instantly surrounded by gendarmes, and during the night a fire started mysteriously and had to be put out by the Usak fire brigade. The next day, the local police chief announced that he had been suspended from duty because he refused to obey the provincial governor's order to shoot anyone who left Salci's house that night...
...Town's first act survives largely because of audience interest and trust in the Yankee ingenuity of the Stage Manager. One believes that there is a "real" town, which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts about the town, the "questions from the audience," and the rambling generalizations of Editor Webb of The Sentinel. Like a New England town meeting, the play has a chairman, an avowed purpose, and a sense that everyone in the audience must cooperate...