Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it's still John Osborne's The Entertainer. It had the advantage of being a complete break from the other sort of work and that made it much more refreshing than tormenting oneself through these punishing roles of Shakespeare. I have an affinity with Archie Rice. It's what I really am. I'm not like Hamlet...
...property of its cultivators, with a policy that allowed food prices to rise enough so that farmers were encouraged to work hard to increase output. As a result, peasants earn more than urban factory workers-an average $139 per month, compared with $133 for factory workers-and produce more rice per acre than the industrious Japanese. In Taiwan, government-sponsored rural associations give each farmer access to credit, warehousing, marketing and procurement services and the latest advances in agronomy...
...billion the Ford Foundation dispensed during the nine years of his presidency. Heald believed that foundations should provide venture capital for innovative programs rather than pick up "leftovers off the government table." In 1965, his last year with Ford, the foundation invested $5 million to support the International Rice Research Institute, which made a key contribution to the "Green Revolution" by developing higher-yield rice strains...
...second World War. To the villagers it seems, at first, remote. They speak wonderingly of "the flying ships," trade rumors of Japanese advances on Singapore and Burma, and live very much as they always have, just skirting absolute deprivation. The war seems mysterious and alien. Then the rice starts running...
Gangacharan (Soumitra Chatterji) is a Brahmin and pundit, part doctor, part spiritual adviser to the villagers from whom he holds himself gently aloof. Merchants at first spare him a littie rice as an act of deference. But soon, Gangacharan becomes like everyone else, hungry and helpless to do much about it. "There is no rice," a merchant swears to him. "I would not lie to a Brahmin." He would, of course, and does; the villagers all suspect it. There are food riots. Ananga (Babita), Gangacharan's wife, lowers herself to work grinding rice while some still remains. When that...