Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greece-Breaking an Old Habit" [Jan. 24]: The old Greek habit you refer to is long dead. It died when Greek taverns became infested with local and international nouveaux riches, who don't know why, when or how to smash dishes and who, as you state, measure merrymaking's "success by the depth of the debris." Zorba would have smashed only one dish or glass-but with style. Spending no drachma or "buck" either...
Nixon's lack of rapport with Negroes obviously bothered him. So in company with the capital's Negro mayor, Walter Washington, the President dropped into a black ghetto, shook hands with the boys at the local pool parlor, and inspected the clearing of ruins caused by the Washington riots. Then he brought out a tough new anticrime program for the capital (see following story...
...quality of student life--black and white--would be much improved if black people were seen in all capacities connected with the University. There is only one way to achieve this goal of local and national importance: to bring more black students into our graduate school; to make it financially possible for them to attend; and to see to it that they successfully complete their program of graduate education...
...stay around Antioch for their work term. The dance troupe has become quite good, they say. Some just stay around. There is the case of the student who refuses to take a French course, and while waiting for the college to change its language requirement, has taken over the local film monopoly, teaches the folk-dancing courses (which satisfy physi- cal education requirements), goes to Greek feasts...
...dozen or so Boston publishers, Cambridge claims two: the Harvard University Press and Daedalus. The first is a local industry, the other a mere quarterly that operates from the fourth floor of a clapboard house. Daedalus, however, merits more than anonymity. It avoids the pitfalls of most scholarly journals--an overspecialized, unreadable, pointless, breed fit only for the bowels of Widener. Though it is snobbishly intellectual, Daedalus nonetheless challenges intellectuals to apply their respective disciplines to controversies once consided too low for "dignified' scholarship. Such topics include student politics, the American national style, the Negro American, life in the year...