Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, McGuane rejects the charge that he has turned his back on reality by retreating to "a kind of Early American theme park." To McGuane, both urban blight and rural isolation are symptoms of a deeper problem. "I do think that there's a kind of national illness, and I think that every American is touched by it," he says. "It's a by-product of this 20-year wave of narcissism and self-help movements and stuff where people have lost the ability to refer to things larger than themselves, and their reward is solitude. It penetrates Montana...
College seniors from across the nation are being recruited by a new organization of recent graduates formed to improve teaching in America's inner cities and rural areas...
Tilson said Teach for America intends to attract the best college students in the country to train and eventually to teach in inner-city and rural public schools...
Tilson said that although no overall shortage of teachers exists in the U.S. today, there is a dearth of qualified teachers in the inner cities and rural areas. Teachers qualified in math, science and foreign language are especially needed, he said...
...corruption have been the opposition's strongest electoral weapon, particularly allegations that officials in Gandhi's government accepted some $50 million in kickbacks from the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. But Gandhi has also been derided for indecisive leadership, remoteness, inept campaign slogans, rising prices and, especially in rural areas, failing to deliver a better life. Yet Congress has scored points by painting the opposition coalition as inherently unstable...