Word: agrarianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...images of pilgrims, Puritans and preachers. Boston in the fall can be a symbol for rugged individualism; man conquers nature and reaps the harvest fruits and vegetables for which he says thanks in late November. Hay-rides, horses and apple-picking are all lingering nostalgia for Boston's agrarian past...
...balancing act worthy of a diplomat. Constantly, he reconciles his family's cultural and religious traditions with his overseas experience and his Sudanese patriotism with the realities of his predominantly expatriate past. He is an individual but also a member of an Islamic Arab intelligentsia from a predominantly agrarian country where less than half the nation is literate and its ethnically and religiously diverse population speaks 132 different dialects...
...then known only as Brother No. 1, took power in April 1975, he vowed to turn back the clock to "Year Zero." In the name of a bizarre blend of peasant romanticism and radical Maoism, the Khmer Rouge conducted a reign of terror intended to give birth to an agrarian utopia. At the point of their guns, they emptied Cambodia's cities, abolished money and markets, shut down schools and Buddhist monasteries and forced the entire country to wear black pajamas as a sign of "instant communism." Inspired by China's Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot carried its practices...
...group of his former comrades who are holding him so he can be judged by an international tribunal for the genocidal regime he led between 1975 and 1979. At least 1 million Cambodians died during Pol Pot's bloody push to forcibly turn the country back into an agrarian, technologically primitive nation. He has not been seen in public since December 1979, when he went into hiding after Vietnam invaded Cambodia to stop the Khmer Rouge. Last week, Pol Pot reportedly fled his northern stronghold of Anlong Veng with a small band of loyalists after ordering the killing...
...National Unifier, a Reconciliation Man who will show America the way to the "vital center," where good things get done. Aides say he sees himself as T.R. with a drawl: just as Teddy Roosevelt used his bully pulpit to lead the country through a perilous transformation from agrarian to industrial society, so Clinton would use his to lead America from the industrial to the information age. And though Clinton and Congress will surely agree this year on a plan for fiscal balance by 2002, upon such quotidian concerns, the White House says, the President's legacy simply does not depend...