Word: regionalization
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...from the people to the direct benefit of a select few, the ship owners, and as such it is subject to great criticism. The people of the interior of the country don't see the advantage to themselves and think that this money is not directly beneficial to their region. There is less objection to a mail contract. But these objections are not insuperable, and the main fact remains that some method should be discovered to remedy an unquestionably unfortunate situation...
...most recent example is the case of three University students who, at Christmas, nearly lost their lives on Mt. Washington. Their escape was due to prevailing mild weather conditions. Nevertheless, they caused an immense amount of trouble to their friends and to the people who searched the mountain region for them. The men were neither properly clothed, nor properly prepared for such a trip...
...Typee" and "Omoo" were gateways to wonderland in our youth, opening upon a region "where every prospect pleases" and only in the eyes of the European missionary is man ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from...
...After talking with Admiral Peary on his return. I was convinced that his method was wrong. It seemed to me that although seals had never been seen in the region of the Pole, that they must exist, and that if this was true it would be possible to go on much longer trips, and to stay for a much longer time away from civilization. Accordingly, I decided to make an expedition to test my theory...
...more clearly, I think, in his last two papers. "The Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond the charming trivialties of Lamb and Hazlitt and Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally, is able to see not merely the rabbit in his lettuce patch but the world as a whole. So we go back...