Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montana, Wyoming and Idaho, Republican candidates are keying their campaigns to a shared sense of resurgent conservatism. Democrats, for their part, are going somewhat less than all the way with L.B.J. The three races, all pretty much neck and neck, are made all the more uncertain by the frontier-style independence-economic as well as political-that still characterizes Rocky Mountain voting patterns...
...Eastern Region's capital of Enugu, helmeted coal miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another. But the most appropriate said: "Man must whack...
...successful conservative primary candidates did not propose to repeal the innovations of the New Deal, Fair Deal, and New Frontier; they knew that most voters are upset by the events of the past three years, not the past thirty. And they claimed that Johnson and his supporters have shown little initiative in trying to halt inflation, race riots, and the war in Vietnam. Regarding Vietnam, the primaries did not show that most voters want the United States to abandon the struggle against Hanoi and the Vietcong. They merely want what Americans have wanted in the past: quick favorable results...
This tendency, Oglesby feels, derives from the image we have of our role in the socio-economic structure of the world. "The U.S. sees itself as a frontier of western civilization," an image that connotes a conflict between good and evil. "The wilderness," or what we must conquer to preserve our society, lies anywhere that Western values have not yet penetrated...
...maintains that the American people are being frightened by the threat of communist encroachment on the "Frontier" into supporting further centralization of the economy at the expense of their personal freedoms...