Word: agrarian
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...Lytle. These three men are all that is left of a famous band of twelve Southerners, a lot of them poets, a lot of them from Vanderbilt, who 50 years ago published an alternately brilliant and baffling manifesto called I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition...
...years since, over 150 doctoral theses (in French and Japanese as well as English) have tried to explain exactly what those dozen splendidly provoking essays meant. This three-day gathering, half birthday party, half academic cracker-barrel session, has added a second question: Why do the Agrarians, with their crusty prophecies and affirmations, still sound so pertinent, half of a very non-agrarian century later...
Today the silo has become something likely to house a nuclear missile. But even in the 1920s, the Agrarians were behind their times. Words Like honor, magnanimity and Tradition with a capital T rise from the pages of I'll Take My Stand. In the midst of the noisy bash of the jazz age, the writers deplore the decline of "manners, conversation, hospitality, sympathy, family life, romantic love." While Yankee highbrows like E.E. Cummings and Edmund Wilson were discovering the seven lively arts, the Agrarians were frowning on movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their...
Perhaps AMNLAE's stress on utilizing already- developed skills to the revolution's advantage accounts for the organization's offers of more conventional employment for women. Among its main projects for women are collective sewing factories and agrarian cooperatives, enlisting volunteer teachers for the literacy campaign, and staffing political education" (propaganda) offices. Government figures show that 70 per cent of literacy campaign teachers and more than 50 per cent of workers for the Ministry of Health are women...
...anything.' But little by little it was getting apparent, and Bill whispered to him, 'Well, you wanted a good one, you got a good one-he's having an enema.' " Authority implemented with scatology was natural to Johnson's agrarian traditions of rough paternalism. He got things done through personal contacts; he knew everybody and their skeletons. As the young secretary to Texas Congressman Richard Kleberg, he persuaded Western Union boys to leak him telegrams announcing federal projects. Johnson then released the news first, under his own name. As a New Deal Congressman...