Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that except in extraordinary circumstances we should stick to our tradition. ..." She lectured. She stayed at Son Jimmy's Beverly Hills apartment, regretfully recorded that he was away (on movie business). Accustomed to big airliners, she flew in a small (four-passenger) plane from Los Angeles to central California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, there had the biggest day of a big week...
...magazines, books; a hundred other questions, including "For whom did you vote in 1936?" The Princeton researchers estimated that 6,000,000 people heard the broadcast; 1,700,000 believed it to be news; 1,200,000 were frightened. Although the broadcast dealt mainly with events supposedly happening in central and northern New Jersey, the panic was widespread. In the South, 80% of those who heard were plumb scared; in the East North Central and West North Central States, 72% were alarmed...
Around this central thread of narrative many characters appear: landowners who still practise the large courtesy of the frontier, a wise and cynical old lawyer, a rich and respected doctor whose sadism nobody quite suspects, a feeble-minded boy and a pack that picks on him, old farmers who still remember '49, a lonely Catholic priest, a stern old German music teacher...
Side by side with the College's scholastic emimence as a drawing card to prospective Freshmen is the Harvard House System. Four pages are devoted in the "General Information" booklet to a description of the central position held by the Houses in the life of Harvard Students. Commanding the river in red-bricked respectability, they are at once the pride and despair of University Hall. For hundreds of undergraduates are each year denied admission to them. Most of these men eventually get into Houses, but for an unfortunate minority who ever win that privilege, Harvard is not doing her duty...
...Casy's talkative moments are fewer, and though John Carradine acts him to a T, the preacher is a less significant figure in consequence. Ma Joad grows in stature in the movie at Casy's expense; the courage and family unity which she symbolizes replace his message as the central theme...