Word: agrarian
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...heart of Eden's anomie lie vast technological changes in Western culture that have steadily lengthened childhood and sharply diminished communication between generations. In primitive cultures, boys become men immediately upon surviving harsh rites of passage. In agrarian societies, a hard-working farmer's son rapidly becomes a certified adult. Until recently, puberty occurred at about 14 or 15, marriage two or three years later. The word "teenager" was inconceivable for such 17-year-old adults as Joan of Arc or Surveyor George Washington. In the 18th century, many upper-class Englishmen impressively taught their eldest sons...
...Real Husk. The Communists' confusion over Marx began when the Lenins and Mao Tse-tungs started stretching his maxims to fit largely agrarian societies. Then, too, Marx became archaic when it became evident that 1) England, Germany and the other advanced industrial nations had avoided revolution; 2) capitalism, partly in response to Marx's ideas, had showed itself vital enough to change with the times into something that Marx would hardly have recognized; and 3) workers in the West were increasingly sharing in the fruits of capitalist prosperity. Not until recently did Europe's Communists realize that...
...Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau was more or less on Hemingway's side. He proposed that Germany be broken up into autonomous agrarian states, that the Ruhr and Saar industrial complex be dismantled and carted away to Allied countries after its mines were flooded and dynamited, and that all German men between the ages of 20 and 40 be transported to Central Africa to work as slave laborers on a mammoth "international...
...help, on Mexico's own space satellite for educational TV relay. The gross national product is increasing by 7% annually; foreign investment is flooding in at the healthy rate of $200 million a year. The country has an impressive 72% literacy rate, and the government is conducting an agrarian-reform program that will have distributed nearly 50% of the nation's land to campesinos (peasants...
...story appeared in Greece. Newspapers commented on it, and the afternoon daily Messimvreni took Greeks to task for not helping "this young man of darkness" in his "battle against his destiny." Soon Georgakakis had his choice of several good positions. U.S.-educated Professor Adam Pepelasis, deputy governor of the Agrarian Bank of Greece, told TIME Reporter Mario Modiano: "I read your story and I felt a feeling of shame. It showed how a blind man can look inside his soul and discover the meaning of life-truth...