Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard ingredients for the big historical novel: dashing cavalry officers, stalwart frontier riflemen bearded, Bible-thumping farmer-soldiers, lovely widows in crinoline and lace, loyal servants hovering, a lady who is a whore and a whore who becomes a lady, and the whole rich gumbo stirred up by The War that sets brother against brother, section against section The Civil War? Well, no; for Author Stuart Cloete (rhymes with booty), it is the Boer War, but otherwise the formula is unmistakable...
...Mark Epernay? That was the literary puzzle of the week on the New Frontier. Epernay is the pseudonymous author of The McLandress Dimension, a satire to be published this fall by Houghton Mifflin Co. The "dimension" is defined as the longest span of time that a person's thoughts can remain centered on something other than himself. Elizabeth Taylor rates three minutes, the Rev. Martin Luther King four hours. Some New Frontiersmen get only so-so ratings-President Kennedy 29 minutes, Under Secretary of State Averell Harriman 12.5 minutes. Suspected perpetrator: John Kenneth Galbraith, 54, Harvard economist, until lately...
Penn remains a city campus with too little housing: one-fourth of its fulltime students are commuters. But it no longer talks of moving to the suburbs; instead, it made the city its new frontier. Aroused by the street-corner murder of a Korean student in 1957, Penn mobilized four other institutions (Drexel Institute of Technology, Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, and Philadelphia College of Osteopathy) in renewing West Philadelphia from a slum to a sprightly University City. By aiding the public schools with advice and scholarships, Penn stemmed a white flight-without driving Negroes away. Some...
...returned to the Senate, managed to win a few headlines with investigations ranging from the drug industry to steel pricing to boxing and baseball. In 1962, when Justice Charles Evans Whittaker retired from the Supreme Court, Kefauver's name was mentioned as a replacement, but the New Frontier didn't cotton to the Keefs independent ways and named Byron ("Whizzer") White instead...
...nonparty technicians-and fired inefficient Red bureaucrats. In Budapest coffeehouses the twist has given way to the bossa nova and the Madison. Restrictions against travel have been lifted; last year 6,000 Hungarians were allowed to take trips to the West, a 400% increase over 1961, even though the frontier with Austria is still studded with minefields...