Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Night, Look Out." Colonel Eustaquire Abay (rhymes with buy) is deputy commander of the Second Military Area, which includes the entire region south of Manila. He is displayed as an example and spokesman of the new order which started when the ground forces took over the "pacification campaign." Things are better, he says. Many people in troubled Batangas province, who had been afraid to live in their barrios (villages), and who fled to the relative safety of the towns, are moving back to their old homes. The roads are safe. In this area the Huks are weaker, much weaker, than...
...Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied: "How can I win if I have brakes?" "Then how are you going to stop at the end?" "The crowd will stop...
...bustard in the Southwestern desert. As a member of the Desert Rats, I view Dr. Bump's enthusiasm with alarm. The crime he intends to perpetrate upon our Southwest is far more serious than that wreaked upon Cambridge and Boston by the lad who introduced pigeons into that region...
...second feature, "Rapture," is a foreign imitation of the American psychological drama. Its chief failing is that it combines a rather naive brand of soap-opera psychology with a very poor dramatic situation. Filmed in the Campagna region outside of Rome, the plot leans heavily on the "rapture" of Roman ruins in the moonlight and pays little attention to its main theme--the romance and disillusionment of a young girl and a sculptor. Nearly every emotional sequence in the film is hackneyed and bears the imperfections of what it plagarized from American melodrama...
...foundation, announced that $100,000 would be made available in 1950 for "Opportunity Fellowships." Eligible: any young U.S. citizen "of exceptional promise [who had] not had full opportunity to develop his talents because of arbitrary barriers, such as racial or cultural background or region of residence...