Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most "nego" products of Exeter--has the dubious advantage of glibness. He probably gave even less though to his article than his antagonist. To him all public school boys are doomed to intense concentration in academic life, aimed solely at getting a lucrative position in their home town environment. He throws around Mom and Togetherness as if tney were synonymous with a public school background, a theory which only demonstrates his complete disassociation from the world of which he writes...
...much resemblance as sour-mash bourbon to Sanka. Known as Cervi's Rocky Mountain Journal, after Editor and Publisher Eugene Sisto Cervi, the thriving $12-a-year Denver paper is a sassy, fact-crammed compendium of personals, local business transactions (including almost every new car sale in town) and well-honed gibes at such unlikely targets as the Chamber of Commerce, complacent businessmen, Scripps-Howard's Rocky Mountain News and the powerful Denver Post. Gene Cervi, 50, onetime Colorado State Democratic Chairman, and a graduate of both Denver dailies, of late has concentrated his fire on Republican Mayor...
...other hand, most of the papers are enthusiastic home-town boosters, campaign busily for local improvements, sponsor dozens of community enterprises. In keeping with this sense of community responsibility-and to perpetuate his newspapers-Publisher Gannett in 1935 gave two-thirds of his Gannett Co. common stock to a philanthropic foundation administered by his executives...
...TOWN, by William Faulkner. The malignant, unsavory Snopeses taking over Yoknapatawpha County from the noble old families who once controlled it and gave it graciousness. Intricate and convoluted as the book is in plot and in sentence, Faulkner gives it the air of a sly village idiot's barbershop yarn...
PLATERO AND I, by Juan Ramón Jiménez. One of the best-loved books of the Spanish-speaking world, by the 1956 Nobel Prizewinner-138 prose poems about life and death in the author's home town in Spain. The poems are addressed to the narrator's companion, a donkey, with bittersweet and sensuous grace and delicacy...