Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brasilia was the creation of President Juscelino Kubitschek, who started building Brazil's new capital in 1957 as one sure way of opening up the country's interior. The "Capital of Hope," he called it. His successors felt no such attachment. Recoiling from the dust, disorder and frontier-town isolation, Janio Quadros called it "the cursed city," spent much of his time huddled in the palace projection room, guzzling Scotch and staring at Liz Taylor movies. Joao Goulart studiously avoided the unfinished capital for months on end. Construction funds dribbled off to practically nothing, and politicians mounted...
Back to the Frontier...
...calculate the loss of time or energy this represents-at the very moment when more men and women are needed more urgently than ever to do creative brainwork. The computer culture that can perform the undreamed-of in milliseconds is in its domestic style drifting back to the frontier, with people eating in the kitchen (a kitchen often blended into the living room) and organizing the family to do the domestic chores. Taking note of this, Russell Lynes observed: "We have moved a long way mechanically; we are almost where we started humanly...
Another visitor to the White House was Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, who delighted Lyndon Johnson by staunchly backing the U.S. stand. "Viet Nam is the frontier of freedom," said Menzies, who recently ordered 900 Australian troops to Viet Nam. "Abandonment would mean that country would be overrun by the North, and we can't have that...
...After the War of 1812, the falls were fashionable. Southern gentry traveled up to see the battlefield of Lundy's Lane and to summer by the mint-cool falls. But the era was short-lived. After the Erie Canal was completed in 1827, Niagara Falls became the first frontier town on the way West. By the time the New York Central came in 1858, it was one of the rip-roaringest burgs in the U.S. Floozies and fakes, barkers and con men made the Niagara the rube's Rubicon. "Indian chiefs"-chiefly from Ireland-plied a brisk trade...