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Descending from ship or train or plane, with a minimum of immigration fuzzbuzz, the F.F. sees the world's most intensively cultivated fields, wheat and rice and sorghum and countless vegetables, pressing to the edge of every road, rail and airport runway. He sees the back streets of cities, busy from dawn to dusk, where every human activity save copulation is conducted alfresco. Then occurs the gee whiz Instamatic Blur. The people smiling and waving and clapping from city sidewalks and country lanes. The painfully hand-inscribed WARMLY WELCOMING boards. The impression, away from every preprogrammed and official event...
...fellow commission members include 1970 Nobel Peace Prizewinner Norman Borlaug, developer of new wheat strains and father of the "green revolution," Thomas Wyman, president of the Green Giant food corporation, and Singer John Denver, who has produced a documentary movie on hunger, I Want to Live. Said Carter of Denver:. "While some of us can only reach thousands of people on the problem of hunger, he can reach millions...
...artist, not a polemicist; his scabrous ideas are expressed in the elegiac terms of a fable. In Days of Heaven he tells of a migrant worker, Bill (Richard Gere), who travels from Chicago with his lover Abby (Brooke Adams) and his kid sister Linda (Linda Manz) to harvest wheat for an aristocratic Texas farmer (Playwright Sam Shepard). Tired of "nosing around like a pig" and infuriated by his employer's wealth, Bill decides to use the ravishing Abby to bilk the farmer out of his fortune. No sooner does the scheme get going, however, than Abby falls in love...
There would be some benefits, to be sure. Heavier rainfall would possibly restore Africa's extremely dry Sahel, the Sahara and the Arabian desert to their ancient fertility and make vast tracts in Siberia and Canada suitable for growing cereal grains. But the rich wheat and corn belt in the central U.S. would probably become too dry for these crops. Hundreds of millions of people might suffer from these dislocations...
...Hardy, the plot takes a dozen improbable turns. When he was a poor young man, Henchard got drunk at a country fair and sold his wife and daughter to a sailor for five guineas. Eighteen years later he is a rich hay and wheat merchant, as well as the mayor of Casterbridge. He is remorseful for his sin, however, and when his wife turns up, the sailor having been lost at sea, he tries to right the old wrong by marrying her again and adopting his own daughter...