Word: ruralization
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According to Bly, Hall spends hours every morning answering dozens of letters. He responds to questions about creative writing programs and comments on poems and stories sent for his perusal. Hall may live in rural New Hampshire but “he has his toes in so many things,” Bly says...
...task would be "to interpret the life of Indians, particularly the poor Indians pictorially; to paint those images of infinite submission and patience." This she did like no one before her, filling canvases with farm workers, storytellers, nurses, camel drivers and minstrels. Searching for a way to depict rural Indians that would avoid sentimentality, she hit upon a style?abstracted, rhythmic, vividly colorful?as inspired by European modernism as by India's ancient sculpture...
...Immigration Anxiety All Over In "Bush Is Smart on the Border?and His Party Isn't" [May 29], columnist Joe Klein stated that the Republicans most opposed to accommodating illegal immigrants are "white, Southern and Western, suburban and rural, working class." But Klein ought to be aware that right in New York City there is strong opposition to making it easier for illegals to become citizens. New Yorkers can spot a scam, and this one is huge. Gahan Haskins New York City...
...Opponents of nuclear power say no power source is as clean as wind, sun and tides, and that these should be the focus of energy planning. Nuclear advocates point out that reactors are compact and don't require damming rivers or defacing rural landscapes. For the same output, they say, a solar panel array or wind farm would need 200-500 times as much land as an average coal or nuclear plant. Also, because wind-farm and solar outputs fluctuate, they must be backed up by coal, hydro or nuclear power...
When she got in, she was in disbelief. The idea that the daughter of a farm family from a rural Mexican village would be offered a spot at America’s oldest college was incomprehensible...