Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would seem that Toynbee's "Challenge and Response" theory of history, has application to literary vigor. To Toynbee, a productive culture is one of moderate physical rigor, located on a strategic frontier in conflict with another culture. There is much evidence indicating that a very favorable situation for literary production and excellence occurs when a relatively homogeneous culture with definite values comes into contact with a culture, usually larger, which asserts the superiority of its values...
...City. Little Rock lies almost at the geographic center of Arkansas; its character is that of a meeting place between the alluvial Old South counties of the east and the hilly Old Frontier and Ozark counties of the west. It is a pleasant, leisurely place of well-tended homes and green lawns where violets and jonquils bloom in spring, chrysanthemums in autumn. It is a diversified light-industry city that makes its living above all from nonnative enterprises-the Arkansas state government; the Missouri Pacific Railroad repair yards in North Little Rock; the nearby Little Rock Air Force Base (biggest...
...jutting out from the south bank of the Arkansas River, Little Rock was named by Explorer Bénard de la Harpe in 1722, settled by William Lewis of Virginia in 1812, made capital of the Arkansas Territory in June 1821. A boisterous village at the crossing of two frontier arteries -the Arkansas River and the Great Southwest Trail-Little Rock attracted settlers and travelers such as Davy Crockett, who said in 1834: "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grow nowhere else...
...fiercely proud Naga tribesmen, who inhabit the hills of India's elephant-ridden northeast frontier, no longer lop off other people's heads with abandon, but they still adamantly refuse to bow their own to any man. For two years India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, so often a volunteer peacemaker around the world, has been fighting a private and bloody little war of his own with dissident Nagas...
...with Nehru had been reached without their consent by tribal chieftains who were fed up with the war. and convinced that Phizo's headhunters are pretty poor rifle shots anyway. Many of the chiefs had also come to realize that Nehru would never grant complete independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept aside. "He just does not come into the picture," insisted the Naga Delegation Chief Incongloba Ao. Privately, Ao admitted that most Nagas still favor Phizo's demand for complete independence...