Word: farmers
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Gustave Courbet has been seen for most of this century as the patriarch of the avant-garde ideal, a man both embodying his time and working in defiance of bourgeois taste: in short, a hero. He was born in 1819 the son of a farmer, lived as a socialist, and died in 1877 exiled in Switzerland, his paintings deemed unexhibitable in France on political grounds. In the end, Courbet was financially crushed by a judgment imposed on him by the French government of more than 300 million francs -- precisely the cost of re-erecting the Vendome Column, the imperial symbol...
...Institute. Every individual on the planet must be made aware of its vulnerability and of the urgent need to preserve it. No attempt to protect the environment will be successful in the long run unless ordinary people -- the California housewife, the Mexican peasant, the Soviet factory worker, the Chinese farmer -- are willing to adjust their life-styles. Our wasteful, careless ways must become a thing of the past. We must recycle more, procreate less, turn off lights, use mass transit, do a thousand things differently in our everyday lives. We owe this not only to ourselves and our children...
...campaign has brought about a profound change in the way Thais look at their families. The proof is in millions of people like Boonya Nuenmun, 36, a farmer in Korat province. Though his parents had nine children, Nuenmun says, "I've got two daughters, and that's enough already. I've been practicing birth control for years...
...professor, who studies the literature and cultural history of Scandinavia, had hoped to analyze a 1000-year-old runestone, inscribed with ancient writing. However, when he arrived at the field where the rock was located, Mitchell discovered that a local farmer had destroyed his key to the past. "A farmer had loaded a couple of sticks of dynamite onto the runestone and turned it into rubble," Mitchell says. "All medieval historians are frustrated trying to reconstruct a world about which we know very little...
...that she is the real--as in, she's been there--voice of oppression, since she is Black and female, a genuine minority. And her album could inspire an entire march on the White House--it's got racism, wife-beating, poverty--everything but the plight of the American farmer...