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...million, nearly a third of whom live without some city services. Many are campesinos fleeing rural poverty, who crowd into the capital on an average of a thousand a day. Warning posters emphasizing Mexico City's smog, traffic and unemployment are posted in marketplaces to discourage the peasant migration. But still they come...
...toward building developed economies. They were assisted by massive amounts of public and private aid, loans and investment, mainly from the U.S. and Japan: $7 billion in Korea and over $2 billion in Taiwan. Their bustling cities have a dynamic middle class of entrepreneurs, small businessmen and civil servants. Peasant proprietors are thriving in the countryside. Per capita G.N.P. has risen to $660 in Taiwan, $380 in Korea-fourth and fifth highest in Asia after Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong...
Ditch your Lenin, ditch you Che-- Give us pheasant, peasant and pate...
American leaders overlooked French "exploitation of the Vietnamese peasantry," and left "no way out for the peasant but revolution," Long said...
...they are that - such touches reflect Bergman's continual preoccupation with the stuff of illusion. This obsession links such disparate films as The Magician (1959) and Persona (1966). There are soft shadows of many other Bergman scenes and themes: Papageno and Papagena's indomitable exuberance recalls the peasant couple at the end of The Seventh Seal (1956); the air of blithe innocence and sudden mystery evokes the elegant reveries of Smiles of a Summer Night...