Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest case is the "Olkhovatka Hermes." Olkhovatka is a remote rural region of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Its Hermes is one Comrade Vakhlin, the "unrelenting" prosecutor of a local committee engaged in snooping into irregularities on collective farms. He was nicknamed for the mythological Hermes, who, according to the Soviet press, once stole a sheep, saying to the owner as he made off: "Don't do as I do, do as I tell...
...Blandings portrays the disillusions of the rural "bargain" from sewer to skylight-from the day when it becomes clear that the original dream-house, safely bought, is too old to warrant repair, to the day when the new dream-house at last rears its modern conveniences above a hideous reality of mortgages, and stands proudly in its field of bills. Mr. Blandings will be bitter balm for any optimist who has dreamed of drinking from his own clear spring-and has instead landed up with ". . . one Zuz-Zuz Water Soft...
...land will ever be fit for cultivation (though two-thirds of the people now try to live on the land), Orive Alba would be happy if Mexico succeeded only in growing enough to feed herself. But he also holds that opening up new lands will raise the rural standard of life. By providing hydroelectric power, the impressive new dams would also speed up industrialization, thus balancing the ratio of urban to rural population...
Sacramental Shock Troops. It is these changes in rural Iowa that have set 20-year-old Ruth Greenwood and others like her on their pastoral rounds. Last August, when brisk, cheerful Rev. Gene Carter, 30, took charge of the Warren County Group ministry, he found no less than 21 Methodist churches serving a population of 17,000. Eight of the churches had closed; the remaining 13 were getting along with three full-time ministers and "supply" preachers. Pastor Carter, a teacher of sociology and Christian leadership at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa), decided to throw his students into the breach...
Young Gene Carter takes firm issue with last month's 70-page report of the independent Committee for Cooperative Field Research, which suggests that the remedy for rural Iowa's religious anemia is to reduce the number of churches. It seems to him that there are not too many churches but too few ministers. Says he: "I've never seen an area where the church was closed and the whole congregation goes elsewhere. A lot of the people just quit going to church...