Word: agrarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Needless to say, as I moved in this year, I was apprehensive about my new housing. Yet, with my first impressions of the house, my concerns began to go away. When I got to Pfoho, rather than passing individuals talking about the intricacies of agrarian democracy, I saw two children skateboarding--accompanied by their mother, riding a BMX dirt bike. As an added bonus, there was no Au Bon Pain with its foul coffee anywhere within the range of my senses. I began to understand the subtle advantages that came with having some distance from the Square...
...scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and the transformation of agrarian into industrial societies have not only demolished the credibility of the Christian book-religion. They have transformed our conception of knowledge more fundamentally. An absolutely certain knowledge is no longer the presence of a select few high priests; rather, all of our claims about the world (and I include even ethical ones) are fundamentally open to criticism and, if need be, to revision. Plato and Aristotle may have written great books (I would not dispute it), but, like everyone, they too are not above or immune...
...enduring? Before we had a Constitution, Thomas Jefferson was arguing that the new nation's future would depend on a base of agrarian yeomen free from the vices inherent in big cities. One of the classic, image-driven presidential campaigns featured William Henry Harrison as the embodiment of homey rural virtues, the candidate of the log cabin and hard cider, defeating the incumbent Martin Van Buren, who was accused of dandified dress and manners. One of Van Buren's more vocal detractors was Davy Crockett, who went from frontiersman to the U.S. Congress without ever trading in his coonskin...
...fact, what was ailing us was a good deal more concrete than Seltzer suggested. The U.S. was in the midst of a postwar upheaval tearing tens of millions of us loose from the moorings of generations. From the agrarian South to the industrial North, from Frostbelt to Sunbelt, from the city street to the suburban cul-de-sac, a boundless prosperity was luring us to new places far from family and the old neighborhood...
...show has over 50 canvases devoted to women, in various scenes: at work, playing croquet, or simple portraits. In his "Morning Bell," a red-and-white clad woman walks to her factory job; in the background other women are doing farm chores. This shows the transition from America's agrarian past to the post-War industrial economy; Homer's eye is focused on the trends in the lives of average citizens...