Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remedy that state of mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner, who helped organize the tour and whose husband Clint was finishing an exchange visit to the Soviet Union in December. "It proved...
...juvenile fiction, but every word of it is true, and it is truly narrated in Bicycle Rider (Harper & Row; $9.95). Abetted by Ed Young's exuberant illustrations, Author Mary Scioscia raises Taylor from obscurity to role model. Her descriptions of turn-of-the-century black life in rural America never moralize; perhaps that, even more than the headlong pace, accounts for the most emotionally satisfying cyclist's story since Breaking Away unreeled...
...army suffers from an even more serious ailment: lack of enthusiasm. Since 1981, roughly half the troops trained by Americans have left the army at the end of their two-year tour. Only 15% of the 1,800 Salvadorans trained in the U.S. have re-enlisted. In rural provinces, teen-agers as young as 15 must be forcibly conscripted to meet manpower quotas...
Police now believe that an armed gang had driven up to the isolated church in rural Armagh County, just one mile from the border with the Irish Republic, and opened fire with pistols and automatic rifles. The killers escaped, presumably into the Irish Republic. Cartridges found on the scene link the killings to Dominic ("Mad Dog") McGlinchey, 29, a former member of the Irish Republican Army and still Ireland's most wanted terrorist. As police north and south of the Irish border went on major alert, Roman Catholics braced for a retaliatory attack by Protestant terrorists...
...students with whom I spoke were concentrated in low-in-come, predominantly non-white, and often rural schools. Those who plan to continue their education generally consider attending one of the five state colleges which offer affordable tuitions, familiar environments, and Chicano studies departments as well as Chicano faculty...