Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Keller, last month told Catholic workers that as Catholics they should consider themselves prohibited from voting Socialist. "It is a question of conscience, not one of political judgment," he said. Though Adenauer's Christian Democratic leaders privately welcomed the effect the bishop's pronouncement would have on rural and women voters, they were careful not to endorse the bishop's views publicly: they do not want to alienate Protestant voters in the fall's national elections...
Free as a Breeze. City Slicker Gay, whose 200-man rural stable brings him more than $1,000,000 a year, found Jimmy five years ago doing a rube comedy act with a fright wig, blacked-out teeth and rouged-in freckles at a rowdy Washington honkytonk, hired him at $64 a week to sing and play his piano, accordion and guitar for U.S. troops in the Caribbean. On his return Jimmy joined several of Gay's corn-fed broadcasting groups and made a howling hillbilly recording called Bumming Around ("I'm free as a breeze...
Forgiveness. Unhappily for Hodja Boyar, some of the Odemis faithful were Republicans, and in no time at all they had the young priest haled into court on the charge that he had violated a Turkish law forbidding religious participation in politics. The Menderes government, earnestly wooing the hard-shell rural Moslem vote, did its best for the hodja. When the court of first instance found him guilty and sentenced him to ten months in jail, the public prosecutor, in a curious performance, tried to get the Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction. And when that failed, the prosecutor appealed...
City v. Country. Cigarette smoking increases with a movement from rural areas to bigger towns and large cities; so does the incidence of lung cancer. When Hammond and Horn adjusted their figures to allow for the smoking difference (50% of rural men smoke cigarettes, 62½% of big-city men), they found that the lung-cancer death rate was still one-third higher in the cities. This might be a reflection of better diagnosis in major medical centers, or a result of big-city air pollution...
...culture, the conformity and the averageness of American life. Eg: Rene MacColl, embarking for London shouts "Home soon! I am hopping away from this great, swarming ant heap of a country..." And here, in the ant heap, David Riesman states, "One thinks of ribbon-like roadside slums...man-made rural ugliness.... and the endless aesthetic atrocity of the cities." There is undeniably something...