Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agriculture: In the same address and in a detailed message to Congress presented later in the week, Nixon announced his intention to phase out farm subsidies over three years, to "keep the farmer on his land and the Government off" (see THE ESSAY...
...FARMERS in the U.S. have long stood in the anomalous position of being gradually and benevolently subsidized out of existence. For the overall American economy to become ever larger, a smaller and smaller segment of its work force has had to take over the job of growing the nation's food, thus allowing the rest to use their energies in other industries. The U.S. was able to urbanize as rapidly as it did in large part because the Government helped those who chose to stay on the land to become steadily more productive. It built land-grant colleges...
...picketers with their leaflets and black eagles and "Boycott Lettuce" signs to the icy sidewalks and the icier stares of the produce manager; the real reaons begin the brown earth of the Southwest with the brown hands that cultivate it. They are not the hands of the small family farmer whose sturdy pride we romantically recall, nor do they hold stock in the huge conglomerates that employ them. The four million workers who cultivate our winter vegetables are a rural proletariat whose living and working conditions sound like passages from an outdated muckraking novel...
Died. Max Yasgur, 53, upstate New York dairy farmer who, when original plans for a 1969 weekend rock concert went awry because of local regulations, became the patron saint of the counterculture when he opened his 600-acre farm to more than 300,000 uninhibited, youthful celebrators of the Woodstock festival; of an apparent heart attack; in Marathon...
...Golightly, 55, a black and the son of a Mississippi farmer, the chief cause of the schools' problems is not just money but the fact that "for many years they were basically middle-class institutions run by middle-class people. Now the schools are still largely run by middle-class people who live in the suburbs and do not send their children to the schools they...