Word: appalachia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...searchers located the disintegrated plane last week, the late-night vigils in Leland's Capitol Hill office ended, and the Washington practice of canonizing its own began. Leland, who in his life had difficulty dragging colleagues away from junkets to Paris and Bermuda to join him on trips to ! Appalachia, Africa, Indian reservations and migrant camps, finally in death found allies for his cause...
...tech gear, the pain is real enough. In better times the miners never worked on a Sunday (most are serious churchgoers; many are preachers). They earned more than $600 a week, had free medical benefits, seemed content with their simple lives in the savage hills and mountains of old Appalachia. For 14 months they worked without a contract while negotiating a new pact with the Pittston Coal Group, which operates some 40 mines in the region...
...balding meadows. It takes hard men to work this holy land, men who labor under the twin burdens of poverty and occupying oppression. Their clothes are dirt-dry and sweat-drenched. Their faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; their voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents.) By jolting the viewer to reconsider Hollywood's calcified stereotypes of the New Testament, Scorsese wants to restore the immediacy of that time, the stern wonder of that land, the thrilling threat of meeting...
...pursuit of more serious exertions. A score went to a Sioux reservation in South Dakota to do painting, tiling and light carpentry at a Y.M.C.A. center; a dozen arrived in Juarez, Mexico, to help build a "serviglesia," a church to serve the poor; another twelve headed for Appalachia's "Valley of Despair" to plant fir trees and work on construction and furniture-building projects. Says Vanderbilt Senior Ethel Johnson, 21, who stayed in Nashville with another team sowing gardens, making curtains and teaching English in a community of Cambodian refugees: "Students are vastly underestimated. They have a real desire...
Last summer ODN sent 20 undergraduates from various colleges to America's impoverished Appalachia region where they worked for public service groups. Backed by $50,000 from the Ford Foundation, ODN paired students with grassroots groups in the central Appalachian states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. The summer internship program was aimed at getting students out of offices and into the field, according to Shubham Chaudhuri '87-'88, a member of the organization...