Word: rusticity
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...Jimmy Carter is elected President he will not be looking for another Kissinger. He does not think of himself as a rustic in need of a mentor in world affairs. Though the grand total of his officeholding experience is four years in the Georgia legislature and four years as Governor, he is not in awe of foreign policy experts. He is intellectually attracted to foreign policy problems, and sees the world arena as a very large part of the White House franchise...
Although the pattern of the new migrations scarcely suggests a rebirth of rural primitivism, some of those recoiling from the city have settled into rustic and often difficult lives far from urban civilization. The late '60s rural communes persist in Vermont New Hampshire, California, Colorado, New Mexico and elsewhere. Many city-bred farmers have discovered that Dwight Eisenhower (scarcely a guru) was right when he remarked that farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield...
Shrewd Depiction. The first episode, which takes John Adams from failure as a rustic lawyer to the center of revolutionary agitation in colonial Boston, is a fair example of how the series works. For Adams' rise to large status in our political history is paralleled by a shrewd depiction of his personal progress from a bachelorhood feverish with suppressed sexuality to a courtship of Abigail (appealingly played by Kathryn Walker) that is near-comic in its ardor...
...this area and its people -with its rich crops of wheat, corn and soybeans-just may be civilization's most valuable resource, more valuable even than oil and forests and minerals In Earl Butz's little study, which has a horse collar, a buffalo skull and other rustic memorabilia on the wall, the Secretary can almost smell the rising power of food in economics, politics and the pursuit of peace. In those 16 Central States with 1,198,848 sq. mi., 223,260,000 acres are in crops worth $54 billion a year, almost twice as much...
Their personalities are as diverse as their musical tastes. Leadon and Felder are almost recluses. An eight-mile-long dirt road separates Felder's rustic, ridgeline house from the Pacific coast highway far below. On tour, Leadon is a loner who prowls music stores to discover new instruments for his $80,000 collection. Frey is a nocturnal playboy; Henley reads Rimbaud. Meisner is a family man, calls his Nebraska home daily to check in with his wife and three children...