Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archbishop Iakovos, head of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America, lined up with the Roman Catholics. As he sees it, the argument in favor of birth control is based on the secular notion that society "must forever banish from the face of the earth hunger, misfortune, juvenile crime, social revolution and wars-since all these are a consequence of overpopulation." Said the archbishop: "This argument may be correct, but it is entirely negative." Childbirth, he added, is a "duty binding on all-not to avoid children, but to care for them in the nurture and admonition...
...believing, we look on our nation's great wealth as more than a hard-earned resource to be used only for our own material good. If we can truly cooperate with other nations, especially our friends of the free world, we can first defeat the evils of hunger, privation and disease. Thus we can develop a healthier, more prosperous world, and in the process develop greater prosperity for ourselves...
Brought up near the Amsterdam docks, Appel worked as a youth in his father's : barber shop, early decided against so niggling and polite a trade. Painting was his only care, and to pursue it, he lived in hunger and rags, moving often and taking to the road for long stretches. The poor Belgian miners to whose grandfathers the young Van Gogh had ministered as a tortured divinity student were amazed when the ragged Appel appeared to paint them in his turn, in their turn ministered to him, sharing what they had with the hot-eyed and hungry traveler...
...Technological Trap. For FAO's Binay Sen, the prime answer to the world's hunger lies not in birth rate or food giveaways but in the diffusion of advanced agricultural techniques-chemical fertilizer, better seeds, soil improvement. To persuade the conservative, generally illiterate peasants of Asia or Africa to learn and adopt such techniques will, as Sen admits, require years, perhaps decades, of effort. And agricultural technology by itself will not solve the world's food problem. The kind of productivity which enables one U.S. farmer to feed 22 people would create economic chaos in a nation...
...prolonged effort and by investing the fruits of today's self-denial in tomorrow's production. This, though no one in Rome last week dared say it in so many words, is the first battle that must be won in Binay Sen's fight against hunger...