Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hotbed of basketball on the Eel River in Wabash County, only to be humbled later in the day. In last week's semifinals, all the small-town schools (the smaller the town, the higher the fervor) were eliminated. It was enough to quench bonfire celebrations all over the rural districts, where farm boys spent most of their spare time, between milking and other chores, shooting basketballs through hoops on the barns...
...represents himself as a liberal and is seeking re-election on his program of supporting, among other things, the State Farm Bureau's demands for a state power authority, consolidation of rural schools, and development of cooperatives...
...great many Georgians were intensely displeased by this tawdry barbarism. Governor Melvin Thompson took steps to counteract it. He ordered two prisoners removed from Reidsville's safe Tatnall State Prison and sent back to a rural jail in Emanuel County where they are accused of having murdered a state patrolman. This was done to prove that no Georgian would lynch them. The Governor said that the Klan meetings should be outlawed. His reason: their activities might encourage the interference of Northern "race baiters...
Georges Rouquier, who "conceived and produced" this film, clearly has this understanding of his medium, combined with creative inspiration and boldness. The subject-the daily and lifelong effort of rural man as a part of nature and as a portion of eternity-is one of the grandest there is, and has inspired a long creative tradition. In that great line, Farrebique deals with its theme in terms which the theme cries out for-absolute realism...
...Story. On the high reaches of the marble cliffs that separate the towns on the Marina River from rural Campagna live two brothers who have abandoned worldly affairs to study plants and words (nature and man). Life with these quiet, diligent and lawful men is deeply satisfying-until the Mauretanians, inhabitants of bordering swamps and forests, begin their raids. The Mauretanians are led by the Chief Ranger, a man who "hated the plough, the corn, the vine and the animals tamed by man, who looked with distaste on spacious dwellings and a free and open life. . . . Only then...