Word: ruralism
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...depth; as a study of spiritual crisis, it falls short. Robert Duvall has long wanted to make (and star in) this intimate epic about a preacher forced to reappraise his life when he commits a crime and is compelled to leave his Texas flock for a mysterious calling in rural Louisiana. Duvall doesn't acquit himself at all, either as an actor or as a filmmaker. But he coaxed true performances from Farrah Fawcett, Billy Bob Thornton, John Beasley and June Carter Cash. But the fine supporting cast does not have much to do. Every scene, every frame...
...Cornel West Opens Democracy Teach-Ins" (News, March 3), Nanaho Sawano states that Sewell Chan '98, a former Crimson executive, "...echoed West's concerns, and said Harvard was often isolated from a world where the least-skilled Americans continue to live in inner-city and rural poverty." Having attended and listened eagerly and intently to West's speech, I do not think that statement accurately reflects West's "concerns," but in fact contradicts West's argument. West emphasized the need to create a "public space" in which political and social discourse can take place. And that "public space," created...
...believe West was concerned that those living in "inner-city and rural poverty" would not be open to that "public space" given their conditions. But those conditions are not predicated on their abilities and their "skills," but the absence of opportunities and outlets to their inescapable circular situations. As West expressed, we need to recognize the "extraordinary in ordinariness" in all people regardless of their economic, demographic, social, etc. apparent limitations. Americans living in "inner-city and rural poverty" are not "least-skille,d," they are forgotten. They are not open to the "public space" and thus, rendered voiceless...
Sewell Chan '98, a panelist and former Crimsonexecutive, echoed West's concerns, and saidHarvard was often isolated from a world where theleast-skilled Americans continue to live ininner-city and rural poverty...
Early last Monday morning citizens in central Florida awoke to a scene of destruction. Overnight, a series of nine tornadoes touched down leaving 38 dead, interrupting phone and power utilities and wreaking havoc on a 50-mile swath of farmland and rural townships...