Word: ruralism
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...Clinton was not always assured that his visit would be a success. On Aug. 15 a violent republican splinter group calling itself the Real I.R.A. set off a powerful bomb in Omagh, a rural market town in the north. Twenty-eight people were killed and 220 injured in the single worst attack in the 30 years of fighting between Protestants and Catholics. The Real I.R.A. hoped the outrage caused by the bomb would be so great that the peace process would grind to a halt. Instead, the carnage inflicted by the bomb was so indiscriminate and terrible--Catholics and Protestants...
...suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew: the everyday rural life that was the protein of Jacksonian democracy at the dawn of the Age of the Common Man. He got an assist from Hogarth, whose prints he had seen, and from 17th century Dutch genre painting, with its flirtatious girls and grinning yokels. His first public success came...
...China is changing. Domestic tourism is booming as the increasingly prosperous Chinese overflow into Yunnan's parks, ethnic music halls and village markets, gorging themselves on their newly acquired freedom to travel. Tourism, it seems, is one way the wealth of the coastal cities is being transferred to the rural interior, and I hope to help do the same by bringing in foreign currency as I help international travelers enjoy northern Yunnan...
...electorate is becoming more Republican yet less conservative. New voters in Charlotte and Research Triangle Park tend to register Republican but still prefer fiscally responsible pragmatists--even if they sometimes happen to be Democrats--over firebrand ideologues. Faircloth, a successful hog farmer and former Democrat, scores better in the rural east, which is dominated by socially conservative white Democrats who frequently cross party lines to vote for Helms and other G.O.P. culture warriors. Black voters overwhelmingly support Democrats. The result is a state in hold-your-breath political balance: a Democratic Governor, two Republican Senators and six Congressmen from each...
...years Democrats have believed, or at least hoped, that the emergence of new-style moderate voters would be enough to cost Jesse Helms his seat. Not yet. Now they are hoping that Edwards will be a crossover success, uniting those more moderate suburbanites with a good chunk of the rural conservatives whose background he shares. "I know 'em like the back of my hand," he says. Sensing trouble, Faircloth is hard on the attack, labeling the other guy a money-hungry trial lawyer whose life's work has driven up the cost of health care across the state...