Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muster support, Nixon might chop as much as $2 billion out of dubious programs. First to feel the ax should be maritime subsidies, which now cost about $500 million a year, money largely ill-spent. Also due for pruning is the farm bloc's annual harvest of $3.5 billion in subsidies, two-thirds of which goes to farmers with incomes of more than $20,000. The fact that Mississippi's Senator James Eastland's plantations receive $157,930 a year for not growing cotton - while some of his constituents go hungry - ought to be reproach enough. Ironically...
...more rice, but the outlook is grim. "The stocks will be gone by January," says an aide to Lieut. Colonel Odu-megwu Ojukwu, Biafra's leader. "There is nothing to plant and nothing to eat in the lean months from May to September. Nor will there be a harvest next September...
...Negro Ensemble Company seems to be forging a dubious tradition of brilliantly staging mediocre material. Last season, the company managed to make interesting evenings out of two rather lumbering efforts from Africa - Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Kongi's Harvest. The play the Negro Ensemble offered last week lumbers out of dark est Georgia. God Is a (Guess What?) was written by Atlanta Schoolteacher Ray Mclver, whose intention was clearly to make a cutting satire of black-white relations...
Said Goldenson: "We are presently reaping the harvest of having laid it on the line at a time when many Americans are reluctant to accept the images reflected by the mirror we have held up to our society." Goodman seconded the notion. "The medium," he said, "is blamed for the message." In defense of crime programs, Stanton maintained that "throughout history, violence has had a prominent place in art, drama and literature...
Once down on the farm, most of the exiles face the undignified task of learning to live and work as ordinary peas ants do. They must learn to plant and harvest, dig and hoe, and above all to obey their rugged old peasant mentors...