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...said but gruesomely true that if a contest were held to determine the poorest, most exploited area of the world, the number and variety of legitimate entries would be staggering. Still, on undeniably strong contender is the northeastern region of Brazil, centered about Recife and dominated by its sugar and coffee plantations. This is where Paulo Freire grew up and came to know firsthand the listlessness, hopelessness, and pain of suffering hunger and oppression. Today he is living in the physically comfortable environs of Geneva, Switzerland and probably has not experienced hunger for some years. But he had not forgotten...
...praised the leg work of his squad Saturday. "We've been concentrating on using the legs, and the Wesleyan coach called me over to ask for some pointers after the match," Lee said. "Most wrestlers are poorest at disengaging from leg rides...
Both Losing Battles and One Time. One Place portray the Depression from within, rather than from outside. "The Depression," she says in her introduction, "was not a noticeable phenomenon in the poorest state in the union." Whatever this may say about the perpetuity of depression conditions in rural Mississippi, it is more telling about how people under thirty-five felt about the thirties. There is in the eye of the photographer and in the faces and scenes she captures a desperate optimism and an unforgivable innocence. It seems that reality breaks Eudora Welty's heart, and that most...
...total value of the gifts was probably no more than $250, a mere trifle on the grand scale of serious payola. Still, there was something a little tasteless about the Governors of the nation's poorest region consenting to accept such material favors. Perhaps it could have been worse. "One year, in another state," said an aide to Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, "all the wives were given mink coats. That may have been a bit much...
...CHINA RAPPROCHEMENT: "Mao told me in August 1965 that only the richest country in the world [the U.S.] could come to the help of the poorest [China]. As for Taiwan, I think mainland China and Formosa agreed long ago that Taiwan would become part of Mao's China after the death of Chiang Kai-shek...