Word: rural
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Many people have defended Obama better than I can here, so I’ll be brief: What Obama was (maybe) getting at in his comments was what Marx called the idiocy of rural life—a much abused phrase, one that conservatives such as Kristol love to cite...
...deference and humility.“This may not be the truth for everyone,” Benton said, referring to his filmmaking philosophy, “but it’s the truth for me.” Benton’s approach is composed of equal parts rural Texas upbringing—straightforward and slightly off-kilter—and 1960s New York—uncompromising and envelope-pushing. Benton was born in Waxahachie, Texas, and lived his first years during the Great Depression. All he wanted to do was read, and he said that he can still...
...come from across the country to live under the same roof. But it is in Silver’s troubled yet intruiging new novel, “The God of War,” that she takes the greatest risks, stepping back in time and place to a rural Southern California town in 1978 where military planes and water pollution punctuate the arid desert landscape. Tracing a few months in the life of 12-year-old Ares Ramirez, who lives with his mother and his mentally disabled younger brother Malcolm in a trailer home by the sea, the story...
...Rather than promise much new federal money to address poverty, he spoke of "controlling spending" and scrubbing federal agencies for waste. Rather than announce any major anti-poverty initiatives, he proposed a three-month holiday from the gasoline tax, some subsidies for rural Internet providers and a doubling of the tax credit for families with dependent children. Rather than follow in the footsteps of Lyndon Johnson, he praised the nobility of Johnson's cause but then pointed out the failures of the "War on Poverty" effort...
...activist in Selma, Ala., after McCain spoke there. In Inez, Ky., a registered Democrat named Debbie Blevias said she worried that McCain "is going to be for the richer people." When asked what she wanted to hear from Washington politicians, she said, "They could help send money into these rural areas...