Word: agrarians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...path to El Salvador's all-out civil war, however, intensified in October 1979 when a group of "progressive" military officers overthrew the rightist military government and formed a coalition with several leftist political parties. The new government, backed by the United States, pledged widespread agrarian reform and aid to the country's six million poor. It also promised to put an end to repression and human rights abuses by the armed forces, and simultaneously to supress the leftist guerrillas they felt were a danger to the state...
...Expanding resource flow and tightening administration of agrarian reform program to reduce its impact on traditional elite and to increase short term benefits to target population...
Once again the gruesome internecine warfare that claimed 10,000 deaths last year had taken a toll in American lives. Killed in the massacre were José Rodolfo Viera, president of El Salvador's Institute for Agrarian Transformation, and two U.S. labor lawyers, Michael P. Hammer and Mark David Pearlman. Hammer, 42, an agrarian expert who had arrived in the capital the day he was killed, and Pearlman, 26, a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, were both employees of the American Institute for Free Labor Development, an international arm of the AFL-CIO. The organization has been...
Congratulations to Melvin Maddocks for his fine American Scene on the Agrarian writers [Dec. 8]. However, I do not agree that Robert Penn Warren is the South's answer to Robert Frost. Never. Warren is the more demanding poet, and for that reason will never enjoy Frost's popularity. While the landscape of Kentucky remains central to much of Warren's best poetry, the Agrarian movement was only one stage...
...true that the Agrarian dictum "reaction is the most radical of programs" dates badly on the subject of race. Most of the Vanderbilt prophets leave themselves open to the criticism that when they did not behave as if slavery had never existed, they acted as if the slaves had loved it. But in the end, the Agrarians were not political economists; they were poets searching for a metaphor. When they called for a "world made safe for the farmers," surely it was because they believed that such a world would also be safe for poets...