Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yale's offbeat review (2,600 subscribers) claims to "begin where Harvard leaves off"-on the "frontier" of law and social policy. Scornful of big-name contributors, it once rejected an article by the dean of the Yale law school, seeks "adventurous" pieces by its own staff, such as a recent scathing study of Kennedy appointees to Southern federal courts. Last week the new issue probed anti-Semitism in big New York law firms, found them far more willing to hire Jews than a decade ago. (A remaining barrier: the "common knowledge" of Jews that they have no chance...
Pious Gloss. Moslem and Hindu fugitives all tell strikingly similar tales of persecution. Alike, they say that border police systematically relieve them of whatever money and jewels they have left. On both sides, fugitives protest that the only safe way across the frontier is by greasing the palms of unscrupulous fixers. Yet their governments piously gloss over the fact that the exodus is in both directions. India talks only of Hindus fleeing Pakistani atrocities, Pakistan of Moslems fleeing Indian hordes...
Legend, song and the movies have portrayed the desperadoes of the U.S. frontier as Robin Hoods. This may have had some validity in the case of folk heroes like Jesse James and Billy the Kid, on whom the wide open plains imposed a certain gallantry. But in earlier days, when the West was still east of the Mississippi, the frontier spawned a group of brutal outlaws lauded in no song or story. They gouged out eyes, bit off noses, scalped, never robbed without murdering, casually shot women and children. They disposed of bodies by splitting them open, filling them with...
Exploring this neglected part of the U.S. frontier with the help of diaries and a somewhat perfervid dramatic style, Paul Wellman, a novelist and historian of the West, has produced a lively account of a criminal empire which "exerted an influence of bale and woe for a full generation and held all of interior America in a web of terror...
Lumbering frontier justice eventually caught up with the Harpes. Wiley was hanged and Micajah was shot. While Micajah was dying, a man whose family had been wiped out by the Harpes slowly cut off his head with a knife. "You're a God-damned rough butcher," gurgled Micajah, "but cut on and be damned...