Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the press, blacks and whites alike hotly denounced Moynihan for emphasizing black culpability more than white discrimination. In a book published last year, Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding, he argued that the antipoverty program exemplified splendidly the failure of participatory democracy. Many of his old friends in the New Frontier were angered and appalled...
...Given a reasonable response from Poland, Brandt is prepared to recognize within the next year the Oder-Neisse line as Germany's eastern frontier, thus ceding to Poland the huge former German territories that passed under Polish control...
Cable, like other Peckinpah heroes, is a man who knows he is fast becoming an anachronism. Pike Bishop and his band of middle-aged outlaws in The Wild Bunch realized that the days of living by their guns were "passing fast," and aging Frontier Marshal Steve Judd was greeted with derisive hoots as he rode down the main street of a booming little Western town at the opening of Ride the High Country. Cable is a frontiersman at heart, with no love for cities or their inhabitants. It shames him to admit he cannot spell his name...
...suitcases, skiing gear, golf bags and false compartments of their automobiles. Border guards manage to seize only about 5% of the money. Once out of Italy, travelers make straight for one of the Swiss banks that are clustered almost as thickly as espresso bars in towns along the frontier. When deposited, the freely convertible lire are mostly used to buy Eurobonds or mutual-fund shares. Until last month, the Swiss banks had only to mail the lire to their nearest correspondent bank in Italy to receive full credit in any currency...
...game is something. The marathon is a handy metaphor for just about everything that's wrong with America: capitalistic manipulation and dehumanization: the physical and spiritual bankruptcy of the California frontier; the war mentality of the competitive nature of American life. Much of this is brought home (sometimes too explicitly) by the frighteningly familiar em???, played by Gig Young...