Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Recreation." Gerald Carson, a student of American manners, rightly notes that "a prohibitionist in colonial America would have been considered a lunatic." The alcoholic eye-opener was a morning ritual for some upper-class women. In the presence of the bottle, church people overcame sectarian differences. On the Carolina frontier, Episcopalian Charles Woodmason grumbled that "In this Article both Presbyterians and Episcopalians very charitably agree (viz.) That of Getting Drunk...
...subject is the twilight of Empire. The year is 1878, but already night has fallen all along India's northwest frontier. Someone in the 20th Indian Light Cavalry is assaulting women. The entire regiment is in a flap. Surly, cynical Second Lieut. Edward Millington (James Faulkner) is accused of brutalizing comely Marjorie Scarlett (Susannah York), widow of a regimental hero...
...seems clear that the film makers intended a treatise on the perils of colonialism and on the human horrors that such a policy can work. What Conduct Unbecoming quickly becomes, though, is a wheezy courtroom thriller and, eventually, a nostalgic vindication of the British lads out on the frontier Concepts of military honor and justice neatly survive the half-witted examination to which Screenwriter Robert Enders subjects them. The movie is cast with a virtual mothball fleet of character actors (Trevor Howard, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough), who are directed by Michael Anderson (The Shoes of the Fisherman) with almost definitive...
...particularly American elements that have almost become cliches: the loosening of many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns?the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem of why the U.S. has so many kooks, and the lack of any final answer, may come down to a dilemma inherent in freedom. The Bill of Rights...
Guns have bred more guns. Because of the terrifying proliferation of handguns in the past few years-they are increasing at the rate of 2.5 million per year-more people are buying them in self-defense. It is not just the frontier mentality that lingers on in America; to a considerable extent in big cities, frontier conditions have been reestablished because of the surge in violent crime. Ira Latimer, executive vice president of the American Federation of Small Business, told Conyers' subcommittee: "The gun is the self-defense weapon of the cities. Small businessmen need them to survive." Some...