Word: smalltowner
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...prisoner in the dock at the Palais de Justice in Nice last week was short, pudgy, somewhat shopworn and 50. He looked, as the presiding judge himself remarked, exactly like a smalltown butter-and-cheese merchant. But there was nothing, absolutely nothing, small-time about Pierre Aunay. Standing trial on eight separate charges-ranging from jail breaking to cashing phony money orders-Aunay pleaded innocent on all counts. He was, he explained to the court, far too big a crook to have committed such insignificant crimes and far too slick a crook to be caught for the crimes...
...decent job in their lives-nor until last summer ever had much hope. General Motors has had great success in its Pontiac plant (219 of the 230 hired after the riot in that city were still at work last month), the apparent reason being the city's smalltown, clannish social structure. Older workers often know the new men, cover up for them when they do something wrong, find out where they are if they fail to report to work...
...Minneapolis-which hardly qualifies as a village-she suffered nobly through Tyrone Guthrie's The House of Atreus, a 31-hour version of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. In Columbus, Ind., "the Athens of the Prairie," she listened to the American National Opera Company and praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers as I. M. Pei and the late Eero Saarinen). At Ironwood, Mich., she dedicated a park. At Avoca and Spring Green, Wis., she toured a dairy farm and chatted with the widow of Frank Lloyd Wright. ID. Madison, after spending the night...
...been writing has been overworked in the United States as well as in his own career. But When She Was Good also seems motivated by a drive to make a more general point about America than Roth had previously done. Lucy is trying to uphold the morals which symbolize smalltown America and, indeed, "the American way of life." Her attempt to judge people without compassion or understanding, to fulfill an ideal of family life inevitably produces grief and destruction...
...aftermath of history's first hotline diplomacy, the most significant aspect of the Smalltown Summit was that it happened. The road toward a meaningful East-West dialogue may even have started at Glassboro...