Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Director Luis Buňuel (Viridiana) mitigates the imperfections of his corrosive satire with some artistry-and with Jeanne Moreau, who is cast as the Parisian servant girl in a rural landscape teeming with sadism, fetishism, frigidity, rape and murder...
...however, wholly invulnerable. During parachute training he broke a leg. The double fracture healed slowly, and he feared he would be washed out of cosmonaut training. His father, a rural physician, prescribed weight-lifting to rebuild the damaged leg, and eventually it grew strong enough to pass examination...
...Permanent admissions staff and some of its outside reinforcements such adopts several geographical areas the country, visit from time to time in order to recruit or to talk with local Harvard Club officials. The average area assignment includes metropolitan and some rural , some "high-yield" and some "low-yield" parts of the country, entirely geographically . One staff-member, for example, New York City, southern California, the states of Minnesota and Washington, and northeastern Pennsylvania...
...changes that Jaguaribe proposes would "overthrow the military conservative coalition which now protects the income and influence of the elite." Jaguaribe believes that Brazil's most obvious problems--low productivity in agriculture, rural poverty and the erosion of natural resources--only reflect the institutional inequities maintained by this "conspiracy." Nearly 90% of all rural workers do not own the land they work on. The absence of a rural middle class market stifles Brazilian industry. The bem nascidos and the army "combine to keep one masses out of the political club...
...notorious Col. Al Lingo, the Alabama director of public safety who first used cattle prods to break up civil rights demonstrations, are by far the largest and most formidable policing force in either city. The troopers are supplemented by "conservation officers," a ragtag band of rednecks, mostly from rural areas, who are anxious to beat the hell out of any Negroes they can lay hands...