Word: boatmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visitor at the show soon realizes that the Chinese Revolution has also obliterated any notion of socialist realism, as practiced?however fitfully?in Russia. There are no sweating boatmen by the rivers. Not even a dirty shirt in view. Everything is swept, ordered, prosperous. The happy people of Huhsien county are the last Arcadians. Socialism, as it were, equals Ovid plus electricity. Their sacks of grain bulge like the bellies of good-luck gods. Every bulb of garlic in their fields is the size of a baby's head. Each melon and gourd displays, in its massive and purposeful rotundity...
...felt the towline of the boatmen slacken...
Then, delivered from any straining boatmen...
...language of The Measures Taken, ceremonial and ideological at the same time, grows distant in repetition and aphorism. "The rope that cuts our backs lasts longer than ourselves," chant the boatmen that Young Comrade pities. "We must be blank pages on which the Revolution can write itself," say the leaders...
...Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water Quality has not yet decided what the nationwide standards should be. Although the 1970 law called for the best devices "within the limits of available technology," the EPA is caught between state officials, who reject all macerater-chlorinators, and boatmen, who point out that these devices are now so efficient (and superior to many land-based sewage plants) that they should be acceptable nationally. Until the issue is resolved, boatmen in New York and similar states may be marooned...