Word: hungered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concerned with bridging the gap between theory and practice. International concerns, such as South Africa, the Middle East, hunger, human rights, and nuclear proliferation, are analyzed in terms of partisan and specialized perceptions; of when to use self-help, exert influence, or engage in education; of those officials, journalists, businessmen, or others who might make a difference; of the choices they now perceive; and of ways to change those choices in order to reduce the costs of conflict, to promote one's view of justice, or both. Seeks to develop skills for deciding who should do what tomorrow morning...
Growing up, you heard fairy tales. Growing up in the north of England, Alan Price heard about the Jarrow March. The government shut down the shipbuilding yards, even blew up construction cranes. The workers were starving; their children had rickets. The people of Jarrow staged a hunger march, walked the 280 miles to London to confront a government that refused to see them. Some 30 years later, Price wrote a song for them. It was rilled with pride, a particular kind of chin-out toughness set to an easy melody fit for a pub choir, and it had a memorable...
Concerned with bridging the gap between theory and practice. International concerns, such as South Africa, the Middle East, hunger, human rights, and nuclear proliferation, are analyzed in terms of partisan and specialized perceptions; of when to use self-help, exert influence, or engage in education; of those officials, journalists, businessmen, or others who might make a difference; of the choices they now perceive; and of ways to change those choices in order to reduce the costs of conflict, to promote one's view of justice, or both. Seeks to develop skills for deciding who should do what tomorrow morning...
Even if space had arrived soon enough for Mr. Clarke, millions would still be leading starved and stunted lives. Hunger is the result of man's greed and injustice, not of limited resources. If we have rich and poor nations-and rich and poor within nations-what's to stop our children in space from having rich and poor planets? The worst is yet to come...
...life in the village: love, game-playing, and laughter go on. The boy, for instance, makes elaborate seashell mosaics on the beach (though, ultimately, he knows, they will be washed away), and falls in love with his neighbor Angelica, though she too, dies. Submerged beneath the gnawing pangs of hunger in his body are the cries of his head and heart...