Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...garbage barge which took off last spring for the Carribean in search of a small nation willing to trade bananas for several metric tons of hospital waste. But that's nothing compared with New Jersey's efforts to give away its garbage. City managers have sent trucks rolling into rural Pennsylvania in search of an appropriate rock formation on which to deposit their load. Pennsylvanians, to their credit, have been pretty adamant about not taking the refuse. A dozen roses, yes, but they refuse to accept 750 tons of Twinkie wrappers and ex-TV dinners...
...rural, one-stoplight town has one thing in abundance: bars. When all the college kids go home for the summer, these bars fill up with beer-drinking, tobacco-spitting, tavern league softball junkies...
...ferried white convicts to colonize Australia in January 1788. The Europeans ignored the yells, and the Aborigines have suffered from negligence ever since. Now comprising only 1% of Australia's population of 16 million, the Aborigines have become a forgotten and impoverished minority, relegated to the squalid fringes of rural towns and shabby city suburbs of a continent that once was theirs alone. "We are a captive people," says Paul Coe, an Aboriginal leader. "We are a managed people...
...editor and, as a junior minister, author of a hard-nosed government manual, The Authorized Child-Care Handbook ("Make it clear to him that the clock cannot be argued with"). His sad fate is that his political ambitions conflict with a longing to chuck it all and live in rural, childlike innocence. Longing wins, and Darke moves to a Suffolk woods where he dons short pants, carries a slingshot and spends his days in a tree house atop a 160-foot beech. He is quite mad. His physicist wife explains the split between his secret existence and his official report...
...summer retreat where English teachers studied for advanced degrees. Until the late 1970s most were teachers from elite Eastern prep schools. Bread Loaf "was failing in its social responsibility," says Paul Cubeta, a Middlebury humanities professor who has directed the program since 1965. "So we went looking in rural America for potential educational leaders." Foundation funds were raised to help defray the $2,500 cost for tuition and board. Over the past ten years nearly 500 rural instructors have studied in the shadow of the distinctly flattened mountain that gives the school its name. This summer 73 came to Bread...