Word: ruralism
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...slap in the face of everything you used to (seemingly) stand for. In your old Sassy days, you preached independence, freedom from conformity and that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. Less than 10 years ago, you gave us 13-year-old girls stuck in rural Wisconsin a glimmer of hope, a pinky-swear promise that the world could be a funny, smart and even sexy place. You and your writers told us that 14-year-old boys with buck teeth and hard-ons weren't worth our mental energy, that it was more important to rock through...
...addition to this work, Hsiao has assisted many emerging nations in developing methods to provide care to poor, rural populations...
...addition to this work, Hsiao has assisted many emerging nations in developing methods to provide care to poor, rural populations...
These are the words of Freddie Mae Baxter, born into a poor family in the rural South 75 years ago. When her mother died, the teenage Freddie Mae left for the North, seeking work as a domestic. After a lifetime of caring for others--children and old people--she started talking into a tape recorder at the behest of a writer friend named Gloria Bley Miller, recalling what it was like to grow up in a big family in a little house with no indoor plumbing; to pick cotton; to live in "jivey" 1940s Harlem. Miller edited the reminiscences...
...First cable TVs appear in rural areas...