Word: ruralization
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...artists who make Manhattan the biggest U. S. art centre, those who can afford it, depart in summer to rural resorts from Maine to Virginia. Among their most favored summer art colonies are such New England towns as Silvermine, Lyme, Newport, Provincetown, Rockport. Typical is the little town of Mystic, Conn, (east of New London) which opened its 15th annual exhibition last week...
...Willkie was favored over Roosevelt everywhere except in rural communities, showed his greatest weakness in the farm and labor vote...
...poultry and cheese, wine and tobacco, truffles, pâté de foie gras. The silk industry has its own cocoons in southern Cévennes. There are tall pine forests along the Atlantic coast. Most of Petain's decrees last week dealt with family life and rural homesteads. One law provided that small estates (worth less than 400,000 francs) may be exempt from an old law dividing them among the heirs, in order to keep rural lands intact for farming...
...prove to his opponents that he too can be sophisticated, Georges Bernanos opens his novel with a few venomously comic, ugly chapters in which a little 16-year-old wild beast of a girl murders the rural marquis who has seduced her, makes an abject jackass of a hagridden local doctor. That done, Bernanos settles down to his own business...
Thomas Hardy's novels of "Wessex'' are unquestionably the greatest 19th-Century English fiction dealing with folk characters and a rural setting. Such characters and such a setting in the U. S. have been the chosen material of the South's most gifted modern writers. The Southern Review itself was founded five years ago by writers who thought seriously about "Agrarianism," i.e., rehabilitation of the land, return to the life on it, respect for its literary possibilities - as a salvation for the South...