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True enough, a New South has been proclaimed in every generation since Journalist Henry Grady publicized the term after Reconstruction. In 1880 Poet Sidney Lanier envisioned an agrarian Utopia: "The New South means small farming ... meat and bread for which there are no notes in bank ... and grass at nothing a ton." In 1951 Historian C. Vann Woodward decided that the "New South is not a place name as is New England, nor does it precisely designate a period, as does the Confederacy. It vaguely sets apart those whose faith lies in the future from those whose heart is with...
...upon as an arena that endured much and learned little. Could it be that in many ways it can now teach the nation something about how to live? The idea can easily be exaggerated, but there is truth in it. The fact was foreshadowed by the South's agrarian romantics of the 1930s, who in a sense anticipated the "greening of America," the new emphasis on human values and environment. Later the harshly segregated South showed the rest of the nation that it was possible to change despite deeply held prejudices -and to achieve at least the beginnings...
...this score, the Portuguese Socialist Party should come in for great criticism. The party, led by Mario Saores, has consistently played down the importance of socialist reform like workers' ownership of industry and agrarian reform and emphasized the Communist and far leftists' "threat to democracy." In this way the Socialists have sought moderate and conservative votes--and despite their drop over last year's election, the parliamentary voting saw them remain the largest single political force in the nation, with 35 per cent. But the result of this electoral policy is to legitimate the rightist attack on socialism, which...
...last April's election for a Constituent Assembly. Two early polls show the Socialists getting about 40%. In the past year Soares has edged the party closer to the center. Its platform advocates increased private investment, price controls, guarantees of property rights of small farmers and a new agrarian-reform program. It opposes further nationalizations...
...right, is expected to improve considerably on its 8% tally last year, if only because it will be fielding more candidates; in the 1975 balloting, ultraleftists intimidated many C.D.S. candidates into withdrawing from the campaign. The party calls for a halt to nationalization, cutbacks in imports, and new agrarian reforms...