Word: ruralism
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Call it witchcraft if you like, but such rural healing is a major reason that nearly 95,000 demobilized soldiers and 5 million refugees have been absorbed back into society. In less than five years, Mozambique (pop. 18 million) has forged cohesion out of the animosities that tore it apart. The revered practices of communal tradition have succeeded, better than any modern forms of psychotherapy, in restoring a sense of unity to Mozambique's deeply riven clans. "National reconciliation started in the communities themselves," says Roberto Chavez, the World Bank director in Mozambique. "They were the main factor in bringing...
That is where more rural magic comes into play. The newest local healer lumbers into the countryside on 17 tons of armor plate and giant steel wheels. The Frelimo government has invested its scarce cash to bring in a fleet of Casspir demining vehicles, operated by a private subsidiary of the South African army, to get rid of the mines that keep farmers and herders off the country's lush lands...
...could accuse Yusef Komunyakaa, 50, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and a tenured professor at Princeton, of writing self-indulgent, feel-good verse, and he shows why in Thieves of Paradise (Wesleyan University; 128 pages; $19.95). Raised in a particularly racist precinct of rural Louisiana, Komunyakaa, who is black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into...
...compromised, blues-tinged pop-rock album, with drippy melodies and cautious, manicured guitar solos. What it reminds one of is this: on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, amid the high-fashion shops and trendy eateries, there's a House of Blues restaurant/nightclub that's designed to look like a rural, rusted tin shack. Frankly, it looks stupid and out of place. Listening to Pilgrim, one gets the same feeling--there's no room for blues roughness on this CD, and when it appears, it seems forced and false...
DIED. HIDEO SHIMA, 96, a whizbang designer of Japan's 1960s bullet train, which, while not faster than a speeding bullet, still transported passengers at breakneck speeds, allowing rural folk much desired access to cities; in Tokyo...