Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proletarian best. In the mining town of Katowice he proudly proclaimed: "I used to work as a miner myself." insisted that no smell was more "dear to my heart" than the smell of coal dust. He felt so confident, in fact, that at one point he dared to strike a particularly sensitive spot. "Your priests," he said, "promise you happiness in heaven. We will offer you happiness here on earth. Those black-robed beggars don't want to work for it." Only when he followed up by asking whether everyone was happy was he made aware of the deadly...
...village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Urkers still separate their hens from the roosters, turn their paintings to the wall, read only one book (the Bible), take only one processional walk (to church). Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty routine, and the town constable's daily report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That was before Urk ceased to be an island...
...S.M.U., one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. Dean Storey, president of the American Bar Association in 1952-53, is a veteran lawyer who neither conceals nor advertises that he never got a law degree (he did not complete his undergraduate education until 1947). A small-town Texan, he got into practice by reading the law in books that he bought on credit, became a top Dallas attorney and served as U.S. executive counsel at the Nürnberg war crimes trials. Asked to become dean of S.M.U.'s low-grade law school in 1947, he built...
...Lowell, Mass., as Kerouac did, to play football for Columbia. Both books are written in the author's customary form, which is to say, utter formlessness. But while the disjointed episodes of Doctor Sax added up-after a number of sizable subtractions-to a vivid picture of mill-town childhood, the gush of recollection in Maggie Cassidy soon becomes just one undammed thing after another...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 pm.). Rerun time stalks the nation as, for the second time, Edward G. Robinson falls in love with a small-town New England schoolteacher...