Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifteen. I went to the province of Cameguey, and worked with a farmer all day. At night we studied the abe; I taught four farmers-two women and two men. The campaign was like a battle, because we had one million illiterate people. And we had to begin to teach them, because we had to go out from underdevelopment. It was the first activity of the Revolution. All the youth of our country were in that campaign. We were very young people-12, 13, 14, 15 years. We lived all the time with the farmers, teaching them what the Revolution...
...want to wish it on them." Once in a while, Pat's enthusiasm went a bit awry. "This is. a good place to be," she told inmates of Kentucky's Eastern State Mental Hospital. It was a good place to visit, anyway, particularly for a farmer's daughter and former schoolteacher who has learned how to be an unwound First Lady...
Perfumed Fringes. Still, this is one French Revolution that is too much fun for anyone to lose his head over critical objections. The film's condemned premise is that the revolution could have been averted. The Duke de Sisi of Corsica and a bumptious farmer have their respective sets of twin boys mixed up by. a harried doctor. One unmatched pair (Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland) become the murderous, exquisitely aberrant "Corsican Brothers," existing on the perfumed fringes of the aristocracy. The other two (also Wilder and Sutherland) grow up to be swinish revolutionary hangers...
Mark Twain anticipated the "crickit" problem when he first published Huckleberry Finn in 1884. In a prefatory notice he warned that persons attempting to find either motive, moral or plot in the novel would be respectively prosecuted, banished or shot. It was like a carrot farmer putting up a no-trespass sign for rabbits. The book was pounced on immediately by the upholders of the well-made novel and 19th century gentility. Most critics found it shapeless, and vulgar. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," said Louisa May Alcott...
...other new student directors, all nominated by stockholders, are: Joseph Angland. M.I.T. '72: Francesta E. Farmer '71: William R. Harvey, a doctoral candidate at the School of Education; Donald W. Mitchell, a second-year student at the Law School: Stephen E. Roulac, a second-year student at the Business School: Paul S. Snover, M.I.T. '71: and James M. Ziegenmayer, a graduate student in Chemistry at M.I.T...