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The dramatic decline of the size and strength of the Socialist Party in the first years of the 1920s took its toll on Nearing.
In 1927, Nearing made his first trip to Asia, traveling to China by ship for a three month stay.
Nearing the end of their first season, the Giants had gone largely unnoticed by New York fans and newspapers, and Giants ' owner Tim Mara was deeply in the red.
The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.
in 1968, Coleman and his first wife, Sue Coleman, moved to a farm in Maine, situated on land purchased from Helen and Scott Nearing, as part of the back-to-the-land movement.
Nearing the end of their trip, she makes the first overt advances, and they embrace passionately.
Nearing the halfway point, Ferrari was running a comfortable first and second.
Nearing the line, the three horses buffeted one another on several occasions, and, while Northerly narrowly edged past Sunline and Viscount, the roughhouse conclusion to the race sparked three separate protests-second ( Sunline ) against first ( Northerly ) and third ( Viscount ) against first and second.
Nearing the city, Russian troops broke rank and ran forwards to get their first glimpse of Paris.
Nearing retirement, on June 1, 1928, he accepted an appointment as the first President of the Council and Chief Executive Officer of the National Research Laboratories ( which was later called the National Research Council of Canada ).

Nearing and wife
In the 1930s and 1940s, Nearing and his eventual second wife, Helen Knothe, lived in Winhall in rural Vermont, where they had purchased a rather large forest tract for $ 2200 and a moderate sized farm for $ 2500.
In addition to the theater, some of the Bread & Puppet puppeteers operate the Bread & Puppet Press, directed by Elka Schumann, who is Peter Schumann's wife ( and granddaughter of Scott Nearing ).

Nearing and Nellie
( with Nellie M. S. Nearing ) New York: Macmillan, 1912.
Ridgewood, NJ: Nellie Seeds Nearing, 1922.
Ridgewood, NJ: Nellie Seeds Nearing, 1923.
Scott was the son of conservationist and peace activist Scott Nearing and Nellie Marguerite Seeds Nearing.

Nearing and were
Nearing and Elizabeth A. Phelps the amygdala were affected both when subjects observed someone else being submitted to an aversive event, knowing that the same treatment awaited themselves, and when subjects were subsequently placed in a fear-provoking situation.
Helen Nearing, who had known Krishnamurti in the 1920s, stated, in Loving and Leaving the Good Life, that Krishnamurti's attitudes were conditioned by privilege.
Even conservatives in the faculty were deeply troubled since, as one Wharton professor observed, " the moment Nearing went, any conservative statement became but the spoken word of a ' kept ' professor.
Frooks, Nearing and Seldes were all first-hand witnesses of the red-baiting, McCarthyism, and Cold War hysteria of the 1950s.
Helen Nearing ( 1904 – 1995 ) and Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ) were well-known American back-to-the-landers who wrote extensively about their experience living what they termed " the good life ".
Nearing the end of the century, five ornate windows were also added.
Nearing their target, the fighters were attacked by Japanese aircraft.
Nearing retirement, and perhaps a bit exhausted after 40 + summers at camp, Mr. Rothchild and Mr. Martin ( as Bomze was then known ) were ready to sell.

Nearing and John
Nearing appears in the film Reds ( 1981 ), as one of the many documentary " witnesses ," telling stories of his friend John Reed and of the heady days leading up to the Russian Revolution.
Debate Held at the Lexington Theatre, Sunday Afternoon, February 12, 1922: Affirmative, John Haynes Holmes, Minister of the Community Church ; Negative, Scott Nearing, Lecturer in the Rand School.
( with Helen Nearing ) New York: John Day Co., 1950.
* Saltmarsh, John A., Scott Nearing: An Intellectual Biography.
* Scott Nearing: The Making of a Homesteader, John Saltmarsh ( Chelsea Green, 1998 )
* John Scott ( writer ) ( 1912 – 1976 ), Office of Strategic Services and Soviet spy during World War II, son of Scott Nearing
At school he was influenced by such professors as Scott Nearing, Simon Patten, Carl Parker, and John Dewey.

Nearing and Scott
* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )
Pfeiffer ( who developed scientific practices in biodynamic farming ), Paul Keene ( founder of Walnut Acres in Pennsylvania ), and Scott and Helen Nearing ( who inspired the back-to-land movement of the 1960s ).
The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.
From the 1920s, a number of modern authors articulated both the theory and practice of living simply, among them Gandhian Richard Gregg, economists Ralph Borsodi and Scott Nearing, anthropologist-poet Gary Snyder, and utopian fiction writer Ernest Callenbach.
Others, like Scott Nearing, are skeptical about how humanity will use new technology, citing destructive inventions such as nuclear weapons.
* Helen and Scott Nearing ( 1970 ) The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living, Schocken
Scott Nearing, 1915
Scott Nearing ( August 6, 1883 – August 24, 1983 ) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, and advocate of simple living.
Nearing's grandfather, Winfield Scott Nearing, had arrived in Tioga County with his family in 1864, at the age of 35, when he accepted a job as a civil and mining engineer.
In his memoirs written late in his life, Scott Nearing would recall his grandfather as one of the four most influential figures in his life.
Despite an upbringing in a life of privilege made possible at some level by the harsh anti-union politics of his patriarchal grandfather, young Scott Nearing nevertheless developed a social conscience, which one of his biographers describes as " a burr under his skin that none of his relatives acquired and that no interpretation satisfactorily explains.
Scott Nearing as a young man.
" Retrospectively called by one historian " the most famous breach of academic freedom " of the era, the University of Pennsylvania's action had the effect of making Scott Nearing into a public figure and fueled a long-running discussion about the proper role and rights of the teacher.
Scott Nearing, NY Call, 1918
From the Fall of 1915, Scott Nearing was established as a radical " public man.
Following deliberation, the jury found Scott Nearing not guilty but the American Socialist Society guilty on the third and fourth counts of the indictment.
Scott Nearing does not seem to have participated in the factional politics of these years, although his sympathies may well have rested with the former Socialists now building the various Communist Parties.
Scott Nearing, 1919
In the winter of 1956 – 57, Scott and Helen Nearing toured Canada, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, generating a book about their experiences called Socialists Around the World.
The following winter, with their passports issued in 1956 nearing expiration, Scott and Helen Nearing embarked upon a trip through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
In the wake of their travels to the USSR and China, Scott Nearing seems to have drawn somewhat closer once again to the Communist Party, whose official publishing house, New Century Publishers, produced Nearing pamphlets on Eastern Europe and Cuba in 1962 and 1963.

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