Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This weekend, Harvard (5-0 ECAC, 4-0 Ivy) faces Cornell tonight and Colgate Sunday afternoon in the peaceful confines of rural New York. But the action on the ice may not be as peaceful as a clear, star-lit country night. Harvard has become the marked team of the league. The team everyone wants to beat...
...working the Band vein here, but he is still writing in the American grain. Born in Canada to a Mohawk mother and a Jewish father, Robertson talks about American mythology, about leaving home in Ronnie Hawkins' barbed-wire rock band and touring rural America, about going "down South, where the music and folklore had enormous impact on me." All those great early Band songs (The Weight, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The Shape I'm In, Up on Cripple Creek) were Robertson's way of measuring and transmuting all that experience. The material on this record just deepens...
...armored car and busloads of officers in riot gear helped ring the 48-acre Federal Detention Center outside Oakdale, a town of 7,000 in rural south-central Louisiana...
...have any regrets, it is that I never set up that pharmaceuticals pipeline for underdeveloped children in rural Africa. Every day thousands go without shelter, clothing, food, or illegal drugs. Now that I am faced with my own mortality, I realize that to be human is the most precious gift that God has given...
...state stereotyped as piteously poor and prejudiced, Mississippi has shown its eagerness to cast off the plagues of racial politics, an archaic constitution and rural-dominated economics. One recent symbol: the crowning last summer of a black woman, 23-year-old Toni Seawright, as Miss Mississippi. ! Yet the attitude is hardly unanimous. Last week voters finally repealed a 97- year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage (which had already been struck down by the courts), but they did so by an embarrassingly close...