Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many small businesses fear that branches of big chains will take local savings deposits but not lend them back to firms in the community. "In rural Minnesota, many banks lend money on a handshake," says Daryl Erdman, the Minnesota supermarket owner. "Even if a guy's financial statement is a mess, the banker knows he's good for it. What happens if Chase Manhattan puts a brand-new East Coast M.B. A. in here...
...damage has been self-inflicted, resulting from government mismanagement, corruption and civil strife. In 1982, a group of Oxford economists warned Ethiopia's Lt Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam that disaster was on the horizon for his nation. The group suggested immediate food rationing and concentrated emphasis on rural development. Instead, Mengistu channeled 46 percent of his GNP into military spending, purchasing at least $2.5 billion worth of arms from the Soviet Union. What's worse, the agricultural investment in which he deigned to engage aped Soviet-style state farms. In view of the fact that the Soviets can't even...
...control laws in Massachusetts, the Coalition is aiming at eastern Massachusetts--liberal communities such as Brookline. Lincoln, and Acton. Boston and Cambridge city council resolutions calling for gun restrictions have encouraged the activists. Focusing on communities may address the differences in the needs and politics of, for example, a rural homeowner in New Mexico and an executive in a picture-window office of a Boston skyscraper--differences that have impeded national strategies. Public opinion and reaction can be predicted more easily in small communities; so perhaps the Coalition will be able to influence legislation precisely and effectively...
...Republicans lost another incumbent just across the Mississippi River in Iowa. Like Percy, Roger Jepsen, 55, may have been hurt by rural economic problems; the farm-debt crisis is severe. But Jepsen, a conservative first-termer, had plenty of problems of his own doing. Last year he claimed congressional immunity to beat a Washington traffic ticket, and in June the born-again Christian was forced to confess that he had applied for membership in a Des Moines spa-cum-brothel in 1978. Nor was Jepsen always solid on matters of substance. In 1981, he trumpeted his opposition to the Administration...
Today one sees him differently, not just as an animalier but as an artist of the whole rural scene, including its people. Stubbs had a haunted, driven side, and its combination with his visions of social tranquillity was like nothing else in 18th century art. His anatomical studies of the horse, dense with thought and laden with death, rivaled Leonardo's anatomies and, like them, came from grueling years of dissection and observation. His variations on a favorite subject, the white horse neighing in anguish as it is mauled by a lion in the wilderness, are among the archetypes...