Word: hinterlands
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Polish-born pianist Artur Rubinstein, 68, down south in Birmingham for a concert, looked back on decades of U.S. tours, hailed the cultural progress of the nation's hinterland, parts of which were once dismissed by H. L. Mencken as "the Sahara of the bozarts." Rubinstein sees the U.S. as a sprawling oasis: "In the past 25 years this country has made more advances than some places in Europe have made in 250 years. Small towns throughout America are more receptive to fine music than old cities in France like Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...
...same, in the sense that each character spoke with his own voice to compose a harsh recitative for a community. But March's community was made up of the doomed dogfaces of Soissons and Belleau Wood, rather than the villagers of Edgar Lee Masters' peaceful U.S. hinterland...
...Gurion's call to live with the newcomers found a group of Jews from Cochin China-dark-skinned, resigned, pious and poor-who seemed to share nothing with the new state except the blue sky above. Said the nurse: "They were as foreign to us as the hinterland of India...
...theater, its race course into a parade ground. Still Shanghai persisted in being a problem city. Its "teeming slums gave refuge to a steady flow of anti-Communists and criminals. Long after its shops and factories could provide jobs, they attracted hundreds of thousands who came from the starving hinterland in hopes of livelihood, thereby increasing unemployment, crime and supply problems. The city's population rose from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 in six years...
...course, a grim, ironic joke in Russia that the vast hinterland conceals numberless prison camps, slave-labor projects, and an abysmally low standard of living among all but party people. These were experts in that kind of concealment, and they laughed appreciatively at Bulganin's easy reference to the "vast territories in which, if desired, one can conceal anything." But it was a guffaw all too reminiscent of Vishinsky's famous blunder ("I could hardly sleep all last night . . . because I kept laughing," said Vishinsky of U.S. peace proposals in 1951). Newsmen spread the story across the world...