Word: urbane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coup d'etat in Portugal, only one of the three liberation movements actually controlled liberated areas within Angola and only one had opted to direct its operations from inside the country--UNITA. It was only after the April coup that MPLA rebuilt its base in Luanda. Having been an urban, primarily intellectual movement ever since its inception in 1956, MPLA had been forced underground by the early '60s, and was only recently able to re-activate its urban cells...
...screenwriter Paul Schrader, the taxi driver is a metaphor for modern, urban man. The taxi driver will go anywhere for money, and is forced to see everything, all the degredation and cruelty men are capable of, but always with the understanding that he will remain outside, uninvolved and untouched. This is the hack's code: be deaf and you will hear everything; be blind and you will see everything. Travis does eventually learn the rules, but only after one last, desperate, misunderstood attempt to remake the world in his image...
Most Puerto Ricans still live in pauperized rural communities or urban slums. Abandoned when the agricultural economy collapsed in the 50s and never involved in the industrial expansion of the 60s, they have remained on the margins of subsistence. Though Puerto Ricans have the highest per capita income of Latin America, 63.4 per cent of the population had incomes below the federal poverty level in 1970. The recent recession had a devastating impact on Puerto Rico: unemployment is officially 20%, but unofficially admitted to be 35%. Even when employment is available, the average industrial wage, $2.29, is half the comparable...
...conservatism. Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux Klan stand as separate archetypes, both backward-looking but emphasizing different elements of a preferred American past; the first upholding rugged and unfettered entrepeneurial skill in an age of strangulating bureaucracies, and the second a world of small-town community unperturbed by urban industrialization and its symbols...
...public works and urban aid bill would have: 1) given $2.5 billion to state and local governments for such projects as constructing and repairing schools, courthouses, hospitals and other public buildings; 2) provided added revenue-sharing funds to state and local governments whenever the national unemployment rate is 6% or more (it is now 7.8%) and only to those areas matching or exceeding the national rate; 3) spent more money for such existing programs as construction of water-purification plants, capital loans to businesses and the Job Opportunities Program...