Word: fishermen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They gather each morning at dawn, waiting to see if the boats coming in are empty or full. Crewmen, captains, shipowners, processors and union representatives huddle in the gloom on fishing piers all along the New England seacoast. Like generations of fishermen before them, many of these weather-lined men work grueling twelve-hour shifts in biting winds and high seas for days on end. Unlike their predecessors, however, they are catching fewer fish every year-which is one reason that U.S. fish prices are rising so fast...
...Islands actually have a very rich folk culture," she reiterates her charge instead of proving her argument. According to Conroy's book, The Water is Wide (the basis for Irving Ravetch and Harriett Frank Jr.'s script) pollution from surrounding factories ruined Yamacraw Island and starved its hunters and fishermen. Frustration spurred violence that scarred all families. Perhaps Collier cannot believe that a black culture's "wisdom, strength and humor" could abide such adversity. Her contention that Conroy takes on "the White Man's Burden of bringing civilization to the uncivilized" misinterprets Conroy's purpose. When Conroy talks...
...also discovered the teeth and bones of elephants, lions, panthers, bears, cheetahs, hyenas, wolves, porcupines, deer and antelope, rhinos, hippos, even seals and whales, and those animals had obviously been brought to the cave by its manlike inhabitants. De Lumley doubts that the cave dwellers were good hunters or fishermen; the condition of the animals' teeth and jaws indicates that they were very old. Says the paleontologist: "The cavemen either killed them when they were pretty decrepit or perhaps found them already dead." The whales and seals could well have been washed onto the beach, where the cavemen then...
...case for greater autonomy is gaining surprising strength. It is built upon both a Scottish sense of uniqueness and a fear that if affairs are left to drift, Scotland will be in deep trouble. Fishermen worry that with Britain's membership in the Common Market, they will be powerless to prevent incursions from European fleets. Residents of towns touched by the offshore oil boom are anxious about the soaring inflation brought on by, among other things, sudden prosperity, population growth and shortages of housing and services...
...very contemporary reso nance. For too long, fishermen have been journeying down to their favorite spots, only to find them defiled. Lake Erie crawls with sludge worms and vegetation that has choked the life out of all game fish. Ohio's Caya-hoga River is so oily that it occasionally catches fire; New Jersey's lower Hackensack River is a stream of odiferous waste...