Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...struck it rich after oil was discovered on the 160-acre Gilcrease tribal allotment in 1906. Proud of his Indian blood, Tom Gilcrease set out to assemble a monument to the American past, and over the years collected examples of the best works of the painters of the U.S. frontier: George Catlin, Frederic Remington, Charles Russell and some 250 others. He also bought masterpieces by Homer, Whistler and Sargent, and a collection of pre-Columbian gold work. Among his 70,000 books and manuscripts are a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed by Benjamin Franklin, the first letter ever...
Poet-Novelist Robert Penn Warren received praise from the poets' critical claque for Brother to Dragons, but the sad truth was that this long narrative poem about a frontier murder was dull and prosy. In A Hopkins Reader, there was plenty of evidence, though not easy to read, to show why a Victorian Jesuit priest, Gerard Manley Hopkins, is still an influence on poets writing today. And of U.S. poets today, no better sampling came along than New Poems, ably edited by Rolfe Humphries. The price...
...unfortunate development of this constantly expanding frontier of science is tied up with the growing complexity and diversity of the industry. The white collar workers are growing more and more divorced from the technical aspects of airplane design and construction. The industry has reached the point in its development where the founders, once contemptuously called dreamers, have had to hire accountants and all the tribe of regular and orderly minds to keep tabs on their sprouting colossus...
...Defenders. For the record, India is not alarmed by the Communist threat. "We are delighted," says the External Affairs Ministry, "to see our backward neighbor making so much progress." Nehru has told the Indian army not to fortify the frontier itself, so as not to provoke the Chinese. "It's bloody rotten for us that the British never feared any danger from Tibet," one Indian officer grumbled last week. "They would have fortified all the passes and we could just move in and make tea. As it is now, if we even build a blockhouse on the border...
...meet this danger, the Indian army put a 190-man mission into Nepal, and built the first military road from India to Katmandu. The first dusty Indian jeep sped along this road last week, a symbol of India's belated concern for her great mountain frontier...