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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...
...towns. Many marry as soon as they graduate from high school and immediately settle into a life of moderate work, church functions, child-raising, putting on weight, and sitting on the front porch on summer evenings. Living a secure, contented life, these people become part of a strong, tightly-knit community of people who share the same values, mores and life philosophies, a community they feel a part of and are able to influence in turn. Surrounded by friends who will help them in times of crisis, and objects that are familiar and safe, they find little enticement...
...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...