Word: agrarians
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NAME LOCATION 13. His attempt to create an agrarian Utopia killed off almost a quarter of this country's population--some 2 million people. The chief targets were the educated and the skilled...
...pill. Buchanan is no reformer; he is a radical by convenience and a scavenger by nature. Why would he change the system that has paid him the salary of the limelight ? on TV and in bookstores ? as a rabble-rouser for hire? Besides, times are too good for an agrarian uprising anyway; those who are simply disenchanted with the system far outnumber those who truly despise it. Buchanan claims to want to change what government does; his call to arms is that the government does wrong. Ventura's is only that the government does too much for itself...
Will cited the example of former President Jimmy Carter, who appealed to citizens as a down-home, peanut farmer. But while Carter certainly emphasized his agrarian roots, he was also known as a nuclear engineer and graduate of the elite Naval Academy...
...Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon. In typical fashion, instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them...
Some see a gap between the political movements of a largely agrarian minority in Nigeria and the academic environment of a university in the United States. But as members of the intellectual community in a technological age, we cannot tolerate the silencing of any human being any more than we can tolerate the silencing of any member of the Harvard community...