Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...therewith all society, have proved to lead in the opposite direction, we have remained loyal to the aim, you to the means." Dos Passos despised Communism for the same reason he hated corporate capitalism--he detested organization and bureaucracy. He ended up yearning for a misty Jeffersonian order of agrarian individualism. Herberg's conversion was religious in nature, and the most enigmatic of all. Burnham, like Eastman, rejected the "scientific" claims of Marxism and finally concluded that the goals it held up made no sense...
...People will pay a dollar for my message and reject the politician they can hear free of charge." The message is grim these days, with unemployment near 30% and the island a tinderbox of factional passions. Many of the Reggae Rastafarians urge that Jamaica drop out and become an agrarian nation based on black pride and African culture...
...years. However, it is surprising that 14 years after an extremely violent war in which an estimated 1.5 million people died out of a population of 12 million, French culture is still so much intact. Despite the government's efforts to establish new priorities--Arabization of language and culture, agrarian reform and self-management along Cuban and Soviet lines, and increased emphasis on the tenets and taboos of Islam--French ideas and ways of doing things persist...
...party coalition government until January, when a controversy regarding the price of rice forced him to dissolve Parliament. During the ten months he was in power, he concentrated on building up the long-neglected countryside by increasing rice and sugar price supports, requiring banks to invest in local agrarian projects and pumping $300 million in direct grants into rural subdistricts. Looking toward the elections next month, he hopes to gain enough new seats for his Social Action Party so that he will be able to create a stable and effective governing coalition...
...then the Panamanian leader may be facing sizable pressures. To prevent the return of Arias, a political oligarch, the general is keeping a watchful eye on the former President's well-heeled supporters. Last month, after wealthy farmers and businessmen met to protest the government's agrarian and educational reforms, Torrijos retaliated by packing eleven of his critics off into exile in Ecuador. After a five-day slowdown by business leaders, Torrijos changed his mind and agreed to allow the exiles to return. Heavier pressure is coming from leftist university students who demand the speedy return...