Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everyone knows it's a fool who bites the hand that feeds him. Now to top that comes the New Frontier fool: one who feeds the hand that bites...
...provided for them by the CVSF. One volunteer said she was so bored she found herself reading the same two-month-old copy of TIME Magazine three times through. Progress in speaking Portuguese came to a dead stop. "Everyone sat around and griped about the vigah of the New Frontier," said Cadman...
...fragile moment in history's long span. Freedom always has been. It has not been the rule of mankind. It has been the exception. Today it remains the exception. And today it remains the issue. Controls, coercion, compromise with tyranny are the marks of the New Frontier; big words and petty deeds are its adjectives and verbs; promises are its substitutes for performance, and its vision of issue is no wider than its view of electoral expediency...
...druthers, he would sculpt all his fabled clients into what he calls the Sy Devore All-American Look. Jackets, cut a good inch and a half shorter than the average, have square shoulders and single buttons. There is no handkerchief pocket-Sy hates bulges. Trousers have frontier pockets (like dungarees), no hip pockets, no cuffs, no belt (or a half belt in cloth), and are three inches trimmer than a standard size at the knee. Sy recommends leather boots to go with all this. The overall impression is a kind of subdued ostentation, part banker, part bookie, part ivy, part...
...himself dresses humbly, because a good tailor knows his place. He wears black silk-tweed jackets with silver buttons, and black mohair jeans with white double-stitched frontier pockets. He has always resisted his impulse to drive a $40,000 automobile. He scrapes around in a Lincoln Continental instead, and lives in an unostentatious $250,000 house...