Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular sentiment that favors hoarding America's wealth for Americans, it is almost certain that there will be many more of these unauthorized human beings entering the United States in the coming years. Economic conditions in Mexico are so wretched that the United States looks like the promised land in comparison. The vast majority of Mexico's 63 million people earn less than $20 a month; devaluation of the peso has brought on 30 per cent inflation and "effectively halved the incomes of those fortunate enough to hold jobs," according to The El Paso Times. And there seems...
...mile border separating them and the result is and will continue to be a movement of people from south to north. As one observer put it, "The border is a series of doors with no walls in between." Trying to keep poor people from coming into a rich land at the border is like trying to catch minnows in a net with ten-foot tears...
...there is nothing the United States can do to help, but ultimately Mexico will have to solve its own problems. The U.S. government cannot force the Mexican government to spend more money on population control or on jobs programs. And the U.S. certainly cannot tell Mexico to redistribute its land or to change fundamentally the structure of its economic system...
...take with the other. As models for progressive nationalism, Patterson singles out the current movements in Tanzania and Angola, both of which he praises for taking strong anti-ethnic stances and for downplaying mystical nationalist appeals in favor of symbolism directly related to work and to the land, to the immediate tasks of building a prosperous society...
...house or room or a neo-Bayreuthring that rotates on its axis to create changes of scene. The new Rigoletto (cost: close to $300,000, neither cheap nor extravagant) is built around a leaning tower that suggests not so much Pisa but Babel and, at times, the land of Hansel and Gretel. At the start it represents the palace of the Duke of Mantua. For the second scene it becomes the house where the jester Rigoletto has hidden, or so he thinks, his daughter Gilda from a menacing outside world. And so on. The tower is, alas, not a very...