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...seven generations the U. S. people have been moving to the city* but as their bodies moved cityward, their day dreams moved in the opposite direction. Year by year nostalgic books about the agrarian past have grown in popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm childhoods. One of the most popular was Delia Thompson Lutes's The Country Kitchen, recalling the Michigan childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted...
...emergency, to commandeer a ride in any passing car. The other day one of these dignitaries found himself out in the country with a car paralyzed by broken gearing and with an important meeting in town within half an hour. He stopped the first car which came along, headed cityward. It was driven by a lady in helmet and goggles, quite like the dozen or more other Belgrade ladies who drive their own cars, but when the general had stated his request and the lady said "get in" he was horrified to recognize the Queen's voice. Embarrassed attempts...
Decrowding should be accomplished, continued Signor Mussolini, by deporting back to the countryside peasant families and individuals who have recently moved cityward. The results to be expected from "a vigorous enforcement of decrowding" are, according to Il Duce: 1) Rural begetting by deported fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes...
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