Word: knit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were far more important to him than the money he hoped to win. Again and again Jerry Jeff sang about men lost in the shuffle of modernization and mobility, men incapable of forming roots and finding stability and meaning in life, men no longer a part of a tightly-knit social unit but standing completely alone instead...
Jerry Jeff and fellow country western singers differ from other songwriters telling about alienation because the characters in the country songs still have one place to go, a place where the community is still close-knit--the rural South. In rural states like Mississippi where there are few large cities and many small, fairly isolated towns, the sense of community is still intact. Most people work on small farms or in some small commercial enterprise. Work is organized at a personal level; everybody knows everybody else. There is a common set of social mores and values rooted in Biblical faith...
...Japanese Red Army. A fanatic, radical leftist movement whose cloudy ideology is part Mao, part Trotskyite permanent revolution, part Che Guevarism. Merged from a number of loosely knit radical groups, the Red Army has only about 40 active members but has been involved in terrorist exploits in Europe and the Middle East as well as Asia. The best known: the 1972 massacre at Lod Airport, in which three Red Army terrorists, acting for the Palestinians, gunned down 26 people...
...family: "I don't know where he ever thought he got a mandate from the American people to have Rosalynn Carter handle the South American issue and Lillian Carter handle other issues." Many executives are disturbed by Carter's reliance on the advice of a close-knit Georgia Mafia. Says Thomas Sampson, managing partner in the Boston office of Arthur Andersen & Co., the accounting firm, and a New England fund raiser for Carter: "I don't think all the brains in the world are in the Northeast. But I don't think they...
...range of high-minded goals for the students who participate in the program, ranging from the development of scientific skills to cultural awareness. Fundamentally, the two-and-a half-year-old program attempts to help students from a divisive, conflict-oriented school environment learn to function as a tight-knit group and have confidence in themselves and in each other. And that is a goal that most observers believe the Thomson's Island students are achieving. As Jerome Winegar, federal court-appointed headmaster of South Boston High School, says, "There's no question that the kids who go out there...