Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Salvador, those land problems are once again under intense scrutiny, both at home and in Washington. At issue is the four-year-old U.S.-backed attempt to bring about social change in El Salvador and undercut support for Marxist-led insurgency among the country's 2.3 million rural inhabitants. The means: a sweeping land-reform program, akin to the one attempted by the U.S. in Viet Nam from 1970 to 1975, that aims at a radical transfer of scarce acreage from El Salvador's former feudal oligarchy to the majority of poor campesinos. The program, says a Western...
Mondale, reckoning Oregon a lost cause, did not stop there at all, and says he budgeted a mere $3,000 for the state, "not enough to elect an alderman." Hart spent $70,000. Oregon voters, urban hipsters and rural people alike, tend toward the kind of self-reliant, pine-scented progressivism that the Coloradan espouses; an endorsement from the influential Portland Oregonian also helped. Hart's white-water raft trip down a stretch of Oregon's Deschutes River was a picture-perfect dramatization of his appeal. "I love danger," he said after shooting the rapids. "It was wonderful...
...every ounce of persistence to maintain that gain as the count dragged on. On the day after the election, NAMFREL estimated that the government was losing in 97 constituencies. As the days passed, that figure steadily dwindled. Though the decline was explained in part by late-arriving returns from rural areas where the K.B.L. is strongest, it inevitably aroused suspicions that the government was rectifying its losses by shamelessly altering the returns. Whatever the final tally, Filipinos may now at last have some kind of check on Marcos' one-man, one-party rule. "Despite determined attempts to thwart...
...score off an interesting and original view of backstage life. 42nd Street attempts no such creativity, in part because the book as well as the music is more than 50 years old. It takes on the by-now predictable story of starry eyed naive Peggy Sawyer coming from the rural hinterlands to make her mark in the flashy world of big city show business. After two hours she has risen from a chorus girl to the star of the show, maybe even falling in love on the way. After hearing Marsh utter such gems as, "Sawyer, you're going...
...history. The wild, reckless settlement of the Amazon region has much of the character of an Oklahoma land rush. And they may have the same importance for the nations south of the border that the settlement of the west had for the United States-relieving overcrowded cities and rural areas of some of their excess populations. This could be especially important in nations like Brazil, whose urban areas have been deluged recently by a flood of migrants from the poorer sections of the country...