Word: frontier
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...transition from stagecoach to TV screen emended or emasculated the frontier in countless ways. It shaved whiskers, canonized cutthroats, multiplied mortality rates, and taught the classics to hired killers. Most starting of all, it exterminated the Negro Cowboy. In the years-after the Civil War, more than 5000 Negroes rode with the great cattle drives from Texas to points north. Negro troops fought Indians, Negro burghers owned hotels and stores, and Negro outlaws rustled, murdered, and died on gallows under sentence from Judge Parker. But in novels and scenarios written for dude consumption, only the plots are black and white...
...U.C.L.A., the whitewashing of the legendary West began with Owen Wister's The Virginian, published in 1902. In an age that self-consciously hefted the white's man's burden and deplored the racial defects of immigrants, Wister gloried in the virtues of noble "Saxon boys" who conquered the frontier. Having met few Negroes in his own travels out West, Wister could see no reason to sully the racial purity of his novel. Other writers were not so passive in their bigotry; Thomas Dixon wrote a popular novel singing the praises of the Ku Klux Klan upon which "Birth...
Such passions are not unknown elsewhere, from Cyprus to the Arab-Israeli frontier to the Congo. But in intensity and in the numbers of people they embroil, Asia's hostilities are the world's most serious and in many ways most troubling to the U.S., which now must consider Asia its foremost foreign-policy problem. These quarrels sadly refute the Gandhian view that Asian spiritualism is superior to the rationalism of the West. Gandhi liked to call for spiritual tranquillity. "Virtue," he preached, "lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence...
Perhaps the best definition of the frontier between health and neurosis in religion came from Dean Samuel Miller of the Harvard Divinity School. One measure of a healthy faith, he said, is "its ability to remain in relation to the threatening aspects of reality without succumbing to fear, shame, anxiety or hostility. An unhealthy religion runs away, becomes obsessed with a part in order to avoid the whole. The body is denied for the soul's sake; the future becomes so fascinating that it blots out the present; all truth is limited to the Bible. A healthy religion unites...
...Home of the Brave, and the Land of the Free, of the New Deal, of the Fair Deal, of the New Frontier, and of the Great Society can have no respect for the inscrutable, childish, feebleminded, sloganmongering land of the Great Leap Forward and of the Hundred Flowers, with its already ancient culture...