Word: ruralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst involving U.N. troops since Israeli forces withdrew from most of Lebanon 14 months ago. It was a bloody reminder of the dominant presence in southern Lebanon of the Shi'ites, the Muslims who now make up 40% of the country's population of 3 million. Long an impoverished rural people, Shi'ite followers in Iran and the Arab world split from the dominant Sunni Muslims over doctrinal issues concerning the descendants of the prophet Muhammad. In recent years the Shi'ites have waged a successful struggle for political equality and economic well-being. With success has come unprecedented power...
Although Rendell's views on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's foreign and economic policies tilt to the left, she sounds deeply conservative when she laments the steady disappearance of rural England. She attributes her alertness to these issues, and her deft handling of nuances of social class, to her long association with the rolling East Anglia plains near Colchester, where she now occupies a 16th century farmhouse on twelve acres outside the village of Polstead. A native of East London, where her parents taught school, and then of the near-in Essex suburbs, Rendell has maintained at least...
...with similar values. In a crowd of fastliving, amoral 20th century artists, Wyeth would seem to be a sort of modern-day Jean Francois Millet, forsaking the sordidness of the city to paint human nature in its natural habitat, just as Wyeth himself finds solace in the woods of rural Maine...
...farm economic crisis has become a rural crisis, and that has become a cultural crisis unique in our history. It is now beyond bank loans and Government subsidies. It is in people's hearts...
...presidential hopefuls are arriving. They gorge on catastrophe. There is everybody to blame and no one responsible. Babbitt, Biden, Dole, Baker, Kemp, Bradley, Hart. They come like pallbearers in dark suits and white shirts and furrowed brows. It is plain that Iowa, uniquely distressed this summer because of its rural character (i.e., farms linked to small towns), will be the bloody ground on which the 1988 presidential nominations will be shaped...