Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant." Two months after writing this, he voluntarily entered the lunatic asylum at Saint-Remy in Provence; and 15 months after that, discharged but still plagued by unassuageable fits of melancholy, he shot himself to death in the rural village of Auvers, just north of Paris. Van Gogh was 37 when he died -- at the same age, it has often been noted, as Raphael, Caravaggio and Watteau, and with an oeuvre no less brilliant than theirs...
...economy geared more to service and high-tech opportunities than to factory jobs. In The New American Poverty, Michael Harrington writes that the greatest movement of Southern blacks to industrial cities came just as American manufacturing was beginning to decline after World War II. "That huge migration from the rural south . . . was much too great for a society that was switching from smokestacks to services, from high wages to low, and eventually to chronic high rates of unemployment that penalized the young, the less educated and the latest arrivals. That is, it penalized blacks most of all." Says Wilson...
President Aquino has drawn her Cabinet from across the spectrum of her coalition. She has acted courageously to bring about a new order. She is standing firmly for reconciliation with the left opposition. She has approved an economic plan that emphasizes rural employment and increasing rural incomes and is working to rebuild an open free enterprise economy...
...span received only small change to celebrate its 50th birthday: $70,000, vs. a projected $6 million to be lavished on the Golden Gate next May. Still, the connection between the San Francisco peninsula and the East Bay, crossed by 250,000 autos a day, helped transform once distant rural areas into bustling commuter suburbs. In 1985 the San Francisco Bay area, with 5.8 million residents, became the nation's fourth largest metropolitan region...
...easy one. What should children be told, and when? Clearly there are no absolute rules. Variations depend on how each child is maturing, even where a family lives. Children from rural backgrounds, particularly farms, are more in tune with sex and reproductive cycles than their supposedly sophisticated urban counterparts. The experts offer general guidelines based on experience. Leah Lefstein, acting director of the Center for Early Adolescence in Chapel Hill, N.C., notes, "Kids are aware of human sexuality at an earlier age than we give them credit for. They are three years old when they want to know where babies...