Word: agrarian
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...foods and the no-breakfast, lunch-on-the-run schedule-or all of the above. Even when they eat a sensible variety of foods, Americans and citizens of other prosperous nations tend to eat more than their bodies consume in physical activity, given the sedentary habits of the post-agrarian...
...when the oaf beats him with a fence pole. Danjell is threatened for giving holy communion to ex-whores and drunkards. But this brief issue is even more deeply tied to prevalent cultural beliefs and social restrictions. Because the population is growing while the land remains divided in agrarian units under a feudal hierarchy, a fearsome religion is the bulwark of the status quo, and inbred into the people. Only when her youngest daughter dies is Kristina convinced that God wants her family to move elsewhere; only when Danjell claims to have heard God's call to Abraham...
...become increasingly skillful in cueing his audience by these means to the psychology of his characters. He has become so subtle in his effects that his two major blunders in Junior Bonner--a slow-motion destruction of a cottage by a tractor which is the softest piece of visual agrarian propaganda since The Grapes of Wrath, and a scene in an empty railroad station heightened by the handy entrance of a train--stick out like Irish bulls in a full corral. There is interplay between Ace (Robert Preston) and Mrs. Bonner which says more about responsibility in male-female relationships...
...arguments major inadequacies. First he dismisses ferment in the rest of the world with some biased sleight of hand. He rejects the African nations because they seek out their non-colonial heritage. Therefore they are inevitably counter-revolutionary. He discounts the People's Republic of China as an irrelevant agrarian nation. For Revel political democracy is absolutely essential, economic equality relatively unimportant. Socialist states, including anything from Sweden to the Soviet Union, disqualify themselves because they are anti-democratic one way streets. He considers Western Europe culturally unimaginative and ideologically misdirected...
...members. With 24 cities of 100,000 or more people in Colombia (overall population: 21 million), that kind of urban organization could lead to an ANAPO victory in the 1974 elections. The established parties are painfully aware of that, and President Pastrana is pressing Congress for basic educational, agrarian and urban reorms. Meanwhile, inflation is increasing while the price of Colombia's prime export, coffee, is down to 40? a pound, v. $1 during...