sentences:  Walbert further described Burrell's pageants as productions that should "transform a 'city of strangers' into a 'community of neighbors' - a genteel alternative to the '100% Americanism' of the early 1920s that sparked divisiveness and xenophobia in the wake of the First World War.Instead of warding off dangerous outsiders, historical pageants stressed unity and identification with community by building pride in common achievement.