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...Agrarian reform, because there is nothing better than a mountain, a hut and a new dawn...
...Eleanor Roosevelt from North Dakota, she describes the squalor and degradation of a family of farm laborors: no shoes or stockings, feet purple with cold. Only one bed, with dirty pillows, a ragged mattress, and a blanket in tatters. "This," she concludes "is the stuff that farm strikes and agrarian revolutions are made of Communist agitators are in here now, working among these people, I was told. What to do about it--I don't know." And again, from Houston, the strains of the emerging impatience: She tells of businessmen and their desire for compulsion, their willingness to take orders...
Finally, the Reagan Administration certified that the Salvadoran government made "good faith efforts to investigate the murders of the six U.S. citizens"--four American religious women and two American agrarian advisors--who were killed in December 1980 and January 1981. The Salvadoran government has made progress in prosecuting five national guardsman accused of murdering three American nuns and a lay missionary with a sixth accomplice turning state's evidence The trial appears to be timed to influence American political and Congressional opinion but there is hope that some justice will be done in but one of the thousands of tragedies...
...other hand, good pre-Civil War agrarian humor is hard to come by these days, and spectators would do well to appreciate the specimens in One Horse Show, as much for their genuine bellyachin' humor as for the lost world they recreate. Dan Rice, the homespun clown who dressed up in a flag suit and ultimately inspired the cartoon image of Uncle Sam, peddled a brand of entertainment which--as the show gradually reveals--was virtually extinct by the time of Appomattox. In his heyday--set forth in the show's early vignettes--Rice would cavort while telling his audiences...
...first, these unorthodox interpretations of revenge seem less personal than traditional-an attitude inherited from an agrarian people accustomed to gentleness and passivity. To be sure, there was a long time, between the 9th and 15th centuries, when Khmer culture sustained a golden age-the period of Angkor Wat with its five peaked towers and massive stone gods. But fundamentally, Cambodia has remained a village nation, and the values of Pol Pot, not to mention his horrors, must have seemed as shocking as they were terrifying. The children in Khao I Dang have simple values. They have been taught...