Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because the rural economy is especially unpromising, jobless Peruvians have been migrating to the capital in frightening numbers. A pleasant colonial-style city of 1.5 million inhabitants 20 years ago, Lima has become a nightmarish sprawl of 6.5 million. The city has grown so fast that suburban slum districts housing 500,000 people are not even included on current maps. Almost 40% of the country's 18 million people are now crowded into the capital. Says Senator Manuel Ulloa Ellas, a close adviser to Belaúnde: "For many of these people, there are no jobs, no services...
Still, Kuralt remains committed to "news that no one else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying...
Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield turned a perceptive innocence against a world that was out to steal their childhoods. But it has long been assumed that they used up the territories of the rural backwater and the prep school. Padgett Powell's twelve-year-old Simons Manigault is proof that they did not. He is in fact one of the most engaging fictional small fry ever to cry thief: sly, pungent, lyric, funny, and unlikely to be forgotten when literary-prize committees gather later in the year. Edisto (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 183 pages; $11.95) is an impressive first novel...
Metzenbaum released a sheaf of memos that indicated Meese had been given information from internal documents of President Carter's campaign. One was an outline of Carter's strategy for farm and rural voters. Attached was a cover note from Reagan Campaign Aide Max Hugel, telling Meese that Campaign Chairman William Casey, now CIA director, wanted his thoughts on how to "counteract this effort." Another memo, written by Republican Consultant Thelma Duggin, concerned Carter's plans to win the black vote. At the top, Campaign Aide William Timmons had scribbled, "Ed Meese-Ideas how to counter...
...white banner adorned with four crucifixes loomed over the crowd at the Church of the Transfiguration in Garwolin, a rural community 40 miles southeast of Warsaw. THERE WAS NO PLACE FOR YOU, CHRIST, AT OUR SCHOOL, the banner said. In any other modern secular country, that message might simply have been a routine protest against the separation of church and state. But in Poland, where approximately 90% of the population is Roman Catholic, and the church is the only institution powerful enough to challenge the state, a battle over crucifixes in the classroom last week sparked one of the most...