Word: ruralism
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Still, giving a scholarship to a Black son of a Harvard grad from Andover and not to a poor white from a rural working class family (Who faces similar psychological, economic and social barriers) seems skewed...
...talking about the third divorce over here." If rock is about feral impulses, country is about spiritual nourishment. Cultural critic Camille Paglia, who has celebrated the Dionysian power of rock music in her writings, believes the genre suffered an identity crisis as it moved further from the rural immediacy of folk and blues and lost its restless, questing spirit. "In rock you're getting middle-class suburban kids who have no experience of anything except what they hear on the radio," she says. "Country music speaks emotional truth. Rock has drifted from it." Says Paul Shaffer, David Letterman's bandleader...
...accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment of the abrupt sexual infatuation and love-suicide pact of a pair of 13-year-olds. Shakespeare could bring it off in Verona. In Guare's rural Sicily, it seems mere wind. Mae West couldn't make it worse, and Richard Burbage couldn't make it better...
...rugged terrain before the 370,000 refugees living in camps along the Thai border can be repatriated. The U.N. mission is also expected to make adequate preparations for that homecoming, although many of the prospective returnees have lived in the camps more than a decade and have lost their rural bearings. "Most of these people don't know how to grow a crop," says a U.N. official...
CONRACK. Novelist Pat Conroy (Prince of Tides) has helped turn his autobiographical tale, The Water Is Wide, about a young white teacher and rural black pupils, into a sweet Jon Voight movie and, now, a poignant musical at Washington's Ford's Theater...