Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loring (Billy the Kid), etc. Nevertheless, the new ballet survived handsomely. While Kay's orchestration produced some remarkable grunts and twangs, Balanchine's dancers were on their toes most of the time, doing high kicks and hoedowns evoking rather than describing romance and square dance on the frontier. Sometimes the ballerinas took off their fancy airs: pretty Diana Adams walked flatfooted, in an impudent, corn-fed way; dramatic Tanaquil LeClercq snapped her hips waggishly; Janet Reed took a running header across the stage onto her partner's arms...
...symbols-Terry and the Pirates, The Road to Mandalay, Errol Flynn striding triumphant down the Burma Road. By the light of the flames that roared up over Indo-China, the dark and distant land of Burma has become visible. Can Burma defend its 1,000-mile Red China frontier by itself? Can Burma be saved? Will it get help-or accept...
Then Yale Theology Professor Robert L. Calhoun, a Congregationalist, rose to speak for the more here-and-now point of view commonly found in the U.S. What is often called "American activism." said Calhoun, owes its origins partly to "frontier evangelism . . . among the log cabins, in the forests and prairies . . . [with] little use for theological subtlety," and partly to the "social gospel" that came with the "growth of cities, industrialization, scientific and technical advance and development of state-supported schools and universities that exclude dogmatic religious instruction...
Tombstone and Last Chance Gulch were sinful frontier towns, but Virginia City had nothing to be ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...
...cash, Richmond will buy up Follansbee's steelmaking plants, warehouses and inventories, continue to operate the company. Follansbee's corporate shell (with $9,000,000 in the till and no plants) will then merge with two profitable Murchison firms: Chicago's Consumers Co. (concrete) and Frontier Chemical Co. (chlorine, caustic soda) of Wichita, Kans. Follansbee stockholders, whose stock will be worth $20 a share after selling their plants, may exchange it for stock in the new merged Murchison corporation...