Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial Milan, Rocco tells of a southern peasant family's coming to grips with an urban world. Variations on an Oedipal theme provide the central plot line, as we see against the spectre of an overprotective mother (Katina Paxinou) the struggle of the saintlike Rocco (Alain Delon) to save Simon (Renato Salvatori) from the dishonorable ways he has fallen into. The tragic situation is provoked by the love affair of Rocco and Nadia (Annie Girardot), a prostitute whom Simon had loved and lost. When Simon learns of Rocco's success, he drives himself to re-enact the primal crime, raping...
There lacks space to describe the subtle touches which Visconti employs to weave in his other ideas about city and country, and human desire. But indications of his understanding good and evil in one vision such as Vincenzo's benefitting from urban life reveal his faithfulness to his conception of truth...
...fair, non-party, non-primary electoral system where the individual voter can choose those candidates who most clearly embody the issues and traits which he desires in his government. Under this system, the city has made tangible progress, both socially and economically. Significant testimony to this progress is its urban renewal program, the planning of which has attracted nationwide attention from urban experts and city planners...
That sectional interests were of such importance in the controversy over the bill is at least partially due to the "traditional lopsidedness of the rural representation in the House which is less interested in this type of legislation than the representatives from urban areas," McCaskill said...
Fortunately, The Lotus and the Robot contains some reasonably descriptive accounts of the impoverished conditions of urban and rural India, and a few interesting observations on the country's Hindu saints. As a contribution to philosophy, it is dubious...