Word: cumberlandism
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Writing Good. To help such people, who do not feel poor and who resist change in any form, the anti-poverty warriors face obstacles as impervious as the Cumberland's timber-topped mountains. To date, Washington has poured $1.2 billion into its Appalachia program, mostly for 3,350 miles of new roads; the aim is to lure new industries to Appalachian cities and give mountaineers ready access to the jobs thus created. But, as evidenced by the few person-to-person anti-poverty projects that have been launched thus far under the program, the challenges of transforming the mountaineer...
...University of the South, perched on a plateau in the Cumberland Mountains at Sewanee, Tenn., represents excellence in education wrapped in a tiny package. Only 787 students, all men, in habit its 10,000 acres. Its Sewanee Review is a first-rate literary quarterly. Its English department is one of the best; it has an enviable one-to-twelve teacher-student ratio, and has turned out fifteen Rhodes scholars, one of the best records among colleges its size...
...sure as the snows of February, there are snowball fights at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Last week, when a five-inch fall set 200 undergraduates to pelting away across campus-cutting West Cumberland Avenue, it seemed at first like any free-for-all-but by the time this one was over, three men were dead. One was a passing truck driver, who got his skull fractured by an ice-cored snowball. Another truck driver, also under barrage, got so incensed that he grabbed a pistol from his cab and shot "I don't know where...
...does not generate its own programs, for example, many people see it as a form of controversial pay TV, which last week got a setback in California (see SHOW BUSINESS). Networks have mixed feelings about CATV, but TV stations resent its frequent disruption of local markets with outside channels. Cumberland, Md.'s Potomac Valley TV Co. provides five Washington channels for its 18,000 subscribers, and Panther Valley TV in Lansford, Pa., a 1950 industry pioneer, picks up New York and Philadelphia as well as Scranton; TelePrompTer plans a Farmington, N. Mex., system that will use twelve microwave relays...
When Mike was in the fourth grade at Cumberland Road elementary school (he skipped the third), his principal took him to M.S.U. Education Professor Elizabeth M. Drews, who had been rather precocious herself-she entered the University of Oregon at 15. She arranged for the Wunderkind to monitor M.S.U. courses to see if he could take the grind. Professors expected a freak with a photographic memory, discovered instead a welladjusted, serious child who thought logically, had a zest for ideas, and made subtle, discriminating judgments. At home, he was well behaved, with a normal ten-year-old's enthusiasm...