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...days, all the men and women cut their grain with rhythmically moving sickles, and out of the measured swing of their movements grew the peasants reaping songs. Now, with the coming of collectivization, the sickle is giving way to modern reaping machinery, and the peasant songs are yielding to the new revolutionary songs...
...such coherence or vision applies to the new Russian economy. Since Boris Yeltsin began shock treatment last January, the result has been a bundle of contradictions. In the industrial city of Rostov, the mammoth Rostselmash factory still makes grain harvesters that no one wants. The clunkers lose up to 15% of the grain as they pound rich topsoil into brick-hard earth. Yet Yeltsin visited the plant last summer and personally guaranteed tens of millions of rubles in state credits to keep the communist relic afloat...
...often, Malcolm X's radicalness, tactics and anger are taught as breaks with the past and ideas that go against the grain of the movement. However, a historical and sociological perspective must interpret his views as inevitable shifts inherently attached to the move from the South to the North...
...Perot won a bigger share of the vote than any other independent candidate in this century, save Teddy Roosevelt, who got 27.4% in 1912. But the maverick Texan got little boost from his final TV blitz. On election night he said he would continue to be "the grain of sand" that irritates an oyster into producing a pearl...
...Indians, in the manner of Dances with Wolves. Up to a point, he is a relativist. Good white men go to heaven when they die, while good Indians head for the happy hunting ground. Natty refuses to send either on their way minus scalps, because it goes against the grain of his "gifts," though he thinks it proper for Chingachgook to do so. But he recognizes a moral bottom line below which there is only one standard and one eternal judge. It is never proper to kill a man who is not trying to kill you, whatever you do with...