Word: belongingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another sweeping promise of the Mexican revolution was agriculture-land for the landless and food for all. Yet half a century later, less than one-tenth of the country's acreage is under cultivation, much of it in the semi-arid north and much of that belonging to the...
The Holy Land is encrusted with ruins. Ancient fortresses crown its hills and ancient roads wind among them. The fields are full of the pottery fragments that archaeologists call potsherds. Rising above the plains stand the curious, flat-topped mounds called tells, which are the corpses of long-dead cities...
Despite these personal tragedies, DuBois did not leave his work. In the evening of his life he married a second wife, Shirley Graham. In a small house in Brooklyn, DuBois continued his research. Though in his own country he had been persecuted, peoples of the new nations did not forget...
The ambitious land-reform program, which has already created 2,300 farm cooperatives, is about to swing into a second phase. So far, 8,300 villages belonging to major landlords have been distributed to peasants; now they will receive lands from smaller owners as well, until some 40,000 villages...
Much of Golding's novel is intact in the film version by Director-Adapter Peter Brook. The sight of black-robed choirboys marching up a tropical beach chanting "Kyrie eleison" in four-four time is properly bizarre; the initial attempts of the castaways to preserve decency and order ("After...