Word: regionaliste
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...Regionalist...
...mean regionalist himself, chesty, 33-year-old Reader Derleth, who writes 500,000 words a year, has only 40-odd volumes to go before completing his Sac Prairie Saga in progress...
...body set up to allot radio frequencies and license stations in the public interest. Through its licensing power it theoretically holds the whip hand over every one of the country's 890-odd stations. At its head is a tall, unreconstructed Texan, an oldtime anti-trust lawyer and regionalist who was once general counsel...
...treatment of Maine people, Maine customs, landscapes, and feelings, is acknowledged to be of a particularly perceptive and persuasive type, but beyond Maine and a few scattered corners of New England, Mr. Coffin's ability as a poet does not exist. It is said that he is a "regionalist," and that his poems can be understood in their full implications only by the elect versed in the ways of those exceptional anthropoids who carry on their own quaint, inbred existence north of Portland...
Serving modestly on the general staff headed by her husband, Poet-Critic Allen Tate (see p. 81), Kentucky-born Caroline Gordon belongs to that well-educated guerrilla band of Southern regionalists who about a decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between...