Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intend," said President Johnson last week, "to help only those who help themselves." Toward that end, he sent two messages to Congress proposing experimental programs that represent a realistic new approach to the disparate problems of decaying cities and poverty-straitened rural areas...
...countries, the corps has grown apace, now has 10,380 volunteers at work in 46 countries from Afghanistan to Venezuela. Its annual appropriation has risen from $30 million to this year's $114.1 million. Fifty percent of the Corpsmen are teachers, the rest are involved in rural and urban-community development, health projects, agriculture and public works...
...noted Kilpatrick in a News Leader editorial, "we have detected encouraging signs that Virginia was emerging from peckerwood provincialism and ingrown 'morality' "-phrases which the late H. L. Mencken used ceaselessly to describe rural America. But after the school board's action, said Kilpatrick, "Mencken's old indictment stands reconfirmed...
...three months next summer, they will join anthropological field expeditions in Brazil, Peru, Mexico, and Ecuador. Together with students from the three other schools, they will participate in rural village life and carry out supervised research...
...little gems for the New Yorker to be bothered, while the poets are grateful to be published anywhere. When the publications do appear they are far to often filled with urbanites finding futility in neon tubes (neon is, hands down, the most overworked image of the twentieth century) and rural types finding truth in the quiet of the old swimming hole (and this must be simply described, of course). Just to round out the issue, there are usually pieces about small children, Negroes, the menace of IBM, and hundreds upon hundreds of smoked cigarettes and half-finished drinks. If such...