Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Genius. Years later, when married, a father and famous as the author of The Scarlet Letter, he was still a recluse at heart. Young William Dean Howells went to call on him in Concord, found him "visibly shy to the point of discomfort." His Concord neighbor Bronson Alcott noted in his journal: "I get glimpses of Hawthorne as I walk up the sledpaths, he dodging about amongst the trees on his hilltop as if he feared his neighbor's eyes would catch him as he walked. A coy genius. . . . Nobody gets a chance to speak with him unless...
...Naval Academy at Annapolis, eyeing little old St. John's College's 32-acre campus across the street, has long coveted its neighbor's land (TIME, Oct. 15). Last week, having met stony, well-organized resistance and having failed to establish a beachhead, the Navy retired. St. Johnnies, testifying for a year before the House Naval Affairs Committee, had thrown their 100 Great Books at the Navy and statistics to show that St. John's was the nation's third oldest college. The Congressional committee told the Navy to find somewhere else to expand...
...broth of a boy grows in Providence, where an Irish Catholic apparently can live and scarcely ever hear of Protestants. The boy's chief experiences involve neighborhood toughs, his jolly dollop of a grandfather, and his dog, an old party who dies under a cloud (after biting a neighbor's daughter). All concerned murder the king's English, but in a grand, Gaelic manner...
...forceful Huntingdon attorney, got 60,000 votes in Shelby County in 1936 by virtue of the Organization's backing. But after he took office he "began to eat too high on the hog." Cried Crump: "Gordon Browning is the kind of a man who would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence. In the art galleries of Paris there are 27 pictures of Judas Iscariot-none look alike but they all resemble Gordon Browning." In 1938, when Browning had the temerity to run for reelection, he was beaten; he lost Shelby County...
...householder in the Zizinia district of Alexandria, had fair assurance that the neighborhood wouldn't get run down. Moving in as next-door neighbor this week was ex-King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy-the old Adriatic neighbor who had had him evicted from his Albanian house & home...