Word: humanities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human community, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place," Kentucky farmer- philosopher Wendell Berry told Iowans last year in a lecture on the work of local culture. "Country people more and more live like city people, and so connive in their own ruin. More and more country people, like city people, allow their economic and social standards to be set by television and salesmen and outside experts...
...just enough money to keep people apace of the world in education and health care, if the economic base is adequate to support quality churches, parks and streets. The fundamental values still celebrated along Greenfield's streets are as sound as ever, their loss in cities the cause of human devastation, something acknowledged now by most experts...
...accusations, why do they make the same kind of accusations against us? As I see it, the kidnaping of American hostages is the result of political turbulence. The problem is the violence that Israel's presence has imposed on the region. We do not consider kidnaping to be a humane act. We do not think it is right for a human being to take away the freedom of another human being. We have been working recently to educate people at the Friday prayers against this method...
...understand these feelings and consider that they are natural and human. We have been working on it, and we are still speaking out about the necessity of closing this file. But we also know that America has the practical means to solve the problem if it wants...
...would like to tell them that I live their deep pain and their human suffering concerning their beloved ones, and I appreciate their feelings. I wish I had the realistic means to end this human tragedy. I am working on educating the whole nation against this method, and I wish that I could influence the people involved. I can confirm that I have done a great deal of work in this direction, but I have come across many closed paths...