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...matter what he does, he is not an African; he will remain an American, and no mortification of the flesh will change that fact. Leaving aside for the moment considerations of health and nutrition, it is certain that any American who tries to live in a grass hut and subsist on yams and termites will soon find himself ostracized by his colleagues at his own professional level, who will invariably live on a standard inconceivably higher than that of the peasant and who will in most cases be quite jealous of their own status and position. He will also find...
...frontier: the despairing (or, rather, disappearing) small farmer. This type represents 35 per cent of the farmers, owns one third of the land, and produces 25 per cent of the total agricultural output. Marketing crops worth between $2,500 and $10,000 annually, he and his family barely subsist from year to year after expenses have been paid. His larger competitors, the heavy industrialists or agriculture, have been edging him and his close relative, the part-time or retirement farmer, off the land at a rate of almost 200,000 a year. Without him, the farm problem would be very...
...title suggests, Getting Married is about men and women and the relations that subsist between them as such, Man and Superman and Pygmalion show what Shaw could sometimes do with this theme; here he treats it so as to expose one of his most celebrated deficiencies. I do not, like certain critics, hold a personal grudge against Shaw for not being D. H. Lawrence; but I do think it was a mistake to contrive a dramatic discussion of marriage in which the sexual urge is ignored almost as resolutely as in a Victorian novel...
...links with West Germany be severed. But despite Khrushchev's threats, 1959 represented the best business year ever, and industrial production in the first quarter of 1960 is an impressive 14% above last year. The West Berlin government pressed ahead with supplementary stockpiling until now the city can subsist normally for six months without outside supplies.Berliners know that no limited cutoff of traffic by the Communists can starve them out. Said a businessman: "Now it will take deeds, not words, to really shake...
Today, two-thirds of the world's population lives in areas that produce only one-third of the world's food. In parts of Algeria in the weeks just before harvest, peasants and their families subsist on acorn biscuits or boiled juniper berries. In Latin America, per capita agricultural production is nearly 6% lower than it was before World War II, and in Asia it is 10% lower...