Word: backe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ironically, many of these young men and women were originally dispatched to rural communes because there were not enough jobs for them in the cities. But last year, encouraged by the new liberalization policies of senior Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, venturesome youths began drifting back to the cities. In an attempt to stem the tide, the Shanghai government announced that no youths working on its 35 state farms would be allowed to return home for three more years. Dozens of students on two such state farms in Anhui province reportedly committed suicide in despair. Meanwhile, others have descended on China...
This sense of a miraculous, beneficent clarity, of vision ecstatically distributed between the near and the far, has permeated American nature writing from Henry David Thoreau to Carlos Castaneda. It is as central to Adams' photography as it is to O'Keeffe's painting, or further back to the landscapes of Yosemite and Yellowstone painted by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and their followers in the 19th century. An entire tradition of seeing is inherent in the word wilderness; it is essentially romantic. As Szarkowski has observed, "Adams' pictures are perhaps anachronisms. They are perhaps the last confident and deeply felt...
...that "the process has got out of hand in length and cost." He thinks the press itself may have "aided and abetted" this overemphasis, because "it's easier to cover politics than to write about government." Theodore H. White, who first trooped around New Hampshire with Estes Kefauver back in 1956, vows to make 1980 his last book-length inquiry into President making. "Why, New Hampshire's only 26,000 votes!" Teddy White says. ''It's like analyzing the Harvard graduating class! It's only terribly important because of what TV does...
...Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller. Miller's lament may never make the Top Forty, but a great many of his countrymen surely share his gloom about having to "do without." As in past times of leaping prices and deepening economic slump, Americans are taking seriously the task of cutting back their household budgets...
...inflation, but also because taxes have been creeping upward, the actual buying power that people have been getting from the money in their paychecks has declined by nearly 4% over the past twelve months. So more and more, almost as a matter of survival, discretionary spending is being cut back...