Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps it has something to do with that old Southern blend of agrarian ide alism and the-18th century romance with the noble savage. Or maybe it is just all that ambling through the tall grass. In any case, Southern writers have had a particular weakness for seeing beauty and naked truth through the eye of the innocent. Robert Early, 34, a North Carolinian and former Benedic tine monk, uses the other senses as well...
...theoretical foundation of the Bicentennial campaign is outlined in an 80-page summary of American history, excerpted from a book entitled Will the Revolution Succeed? by Edward Schwartz. Citing the Declaration of Independence, Andrew Jackson, Abolitionists and the Populist Manifestos, Schwartz presents a picture of the American as democratic agrarian. The key to revolution is an appeal to basic American morality. We must now overthrow big capitalism, regaining our spirit of liberty. "The American version of the concept of revolutionary nationalism would be anti-imperialist, humanist, and libertarian in content, and national in form and rhetoric...
...more than technologists, farmers have polluted the earth-by impoverishing the soil, contaminating the water. Worse, they have polluted the soul. They first introduced the corrupting concept of proprietorship into society. They "degraded sexuality" by connecting it to "productivity." So much for the agrarian idyll...
Always using individuals to dramatize his points and employing a series of heightened dramatic moments which are themselves symbols, Starr catalogues the bewildering variety of contradictory meanings which California held for Americans. Agrarian paradise, gold mine, intellectual and spiritual salvation, contemplative peace, the American Mediterranean -- California meant all these things and more to those who settled the land...
...reorganization scarcely broadened the base of the Lon Nol government. Reminiscent of the countless cabinet shuffles in the South Vietnamese government in the middle sixties, the move makes no attempt to recognize the surging agrarian social revolution in the countryside...