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Culturally the region did not have its own identity, though it has always striven for some kind of characteristic expression. It saw government funds go past it to other sectors more economically depressed. The people had individual dreams and hopes, and en masse these represented a regional vision of improvement at many levels. At the same time feelings of discouragement grew. The young and the old, the conventional and the unconventional, had small skirmishes, where some of the city fathers objected to the long-haired youths in a city park — quite trivial incidents, and yet indicative of splits of values and misunderstandings between the generations.

Locally, there were some general beliefs held: The Elmira region was economically depressed and considered to be in a backwash area of the state of New York, yet the condition was not bad enough for crisis aid. Industry had been moving away. People were out of work; the old routines of livelihood had been uprooted. There was no inspiring local leadership, and a variety of different kinds of individuals felt ill at ease, depressed and forced to the wall.

The rich and well-to-do felt threatened, for they had changed the status quo by their insistence upon modernity and progress, thus releasing the energy of the needy. There was movement of the middle class from the city proper into the suburbs, with a change in the tax balance, and the city merchants began to suffer. The locality had no great sense of unity as a region, or overall pride in itself as a cultural or natural identity.

Locally you had a depressed region not yet in the kind of crisis situation that would draw great federal funds, and highly unstable social and economic conditions coupled with a sense of hopelessness.

[...] The regional manager that day also took over a big segment of time at the meeting that John’s boss would ordinarily be expected to use. The regional manager thus seemed to run the meeting, be on stage, etc. [...]

([John:] “The man in an intermediary position: Could he be a regional manager?”)

[...] Farrer is John’s regional manager, which would be an intermediate position in the company, Searle. [...]

[...] The man, according to John, was also strongly connected to John’s feelings about the company [or attitudes toward it] for he felt that the new man, a regional director, has some of the same attitudes he has.

(The shorter dark-haired man mentioned reminds John strongly of the new regional manager mentioned above; particularly since the man’s face looks round from the front, but not in profile. [...]

(11:28.) Those in earthquake regions are attracted to such spots because of their innate understanding of the astonishing relationship between exterior circumstances and their own quite private mental and emotional patterns.

[...] People live in regions threatened by earthquakes with clear conscious knowledge of them. [...]

(Speculating about a triangle in which he was involved, John said he could see where the weak point would be his immediate superior, his district manager in Rochester, and the strong point would be the regional manager in Long Island. John told us his district manager was offered the job of regional manager recently, but turned it down for various reasons; more money would have been involved also.

(The strong link would be a man named Stan, the regional manager at the triangle’s apex. [...]

[...] We talked about why people would choose to live in a region where it’s practically certain that such storms will materialize every year. [...]

[...] The development of transportation opened up the country, so that an individual was no longer bound to his or her native town or region. [...]

(Our region is supposed to be outside the danger zone—yet we see conflicting newspaper reports about whether the prevailing wind currents would make us vulnerable to the aftereffects of a meltdown. [...]

[...] She thought the discomfort stemmed from a bandage on one of her decubiti in that region. [...]

There will be definite, rather immediate changes apparent in walking, but a balanced stance must be maintained, and the entire lower region of the body is being activated. [...]

[...] The cold to some extent restored the gums, by activating defensive mechanisms in the mouth and head regions.

[...] She did not realize this had any effect on the child…a difficulty, minor enough, in the lumbar region and fourth vertebra. [...]

[...] I said I’d draw her a map of the region after supper, but never did. [...]

[...] There are two regional managers in the Searle organization who are brothers-in-law. [...] John thinks Chase is the more progressive of the two, and is of the opinion that in any clash between these two men a southern regional manager, Don Robinson, would be in a position to pick up pieces. [...]

[...] This will also benefit the back and neck region if used there. [...]

(During break John identified Stan as his regional manager.)

[...] This region in southern France is noted for its many caverns, easily eroded out of the limestone bedrock by flowing water. [...]

[...] When you learn to explore this region you can use it as a launching pad for other activities. [...]

[...] Quite simply, you cannot have one or two or twenty officially-designated natural regions in which you observe animal activity, and expect to find anything more than the current adaptation of those creatures — an adaptation that is superimposed upon their “natural” reactions.

[...] From there in, the sensation of lightness spread throughout my body except for chest region. [...]

[...] I know this is silly, but felt scared that if lower part of body was dissolved; and all that was left was chest and shoulder and head region, then I would just fall down; a chest, shoulders, and head on street. [...]

(Our region is supposed to be outside the danger zone — yet we see conflicting newspaper reports about whether the prevailing wind currents would make us vulnerable to the after-effects of a meltdown. [...]