Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also an environmental and social disaster. Says Republican Governor Jay S. Hammond, a former bush guide: "We can't preserve Alaska as we know it, we're going to have to lose some freedoms and qualities of life here." The boom is bringing to the last frontier urban blight, soaring prices, traffic jams, housing shortages and short tempers...
...police at a demonstration and helps him escape, largely because of his childhood experiences as a fugitive. Unable to understand his rescuer, the student mocks the study of film making as an occupation and needless Michel incessantly about his "bourgeois" life style as they drive to the frontier. Just before they reach the border. Michel stops the car next to a field and walks off, announcing that he is going to search for his past. At this point, the action cuts into the color film, which concludes with the escape of Michel and his family from the Germans to safety...
...failed to realize is that his call for "unity of purpose" as a means of furthering the Revolutionary tradition will not find sympathetic ears among those who produce James Otis lunch boxes or manufacture Patrick Henry book bags. Patriotism has never been founded on the "individualism," private enterprise, and "frontier spirit" that Ford invoked in his speech. He failed to understand that it was not to the politicians, business leaders, and social patriarchs inside Old North Church that he should have appealed for fulfillment of his vision of the American dream. The real American patriots, though they wouldn't have...
Enough of this nonsense about torches of liberty and frontier spirit, he would shout to the crowd. And enough of this guerilla-theater message-to-Wall-Street crap. I ask you all to act with the zeal of civic sacrifice that was so noble among the men and women of this nation in the throes of its birth. Starting tomorrow I am drafting all Americans between the ages of 21 and 30 into a civil militia. For one year each of you will serve the nation without pay, in some public service capacity. You will have a broad selection...
...ascribed to the Leontiefs and the Galbraiths, is that the current crisis proves freedom as failed. Supposedly the Great Depression proved the instability of the laissez-faire free market. The policy prescriptions of Keynesian economics "saved capitalism," along with the interventions of the New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier an Great Society programs, establishing the mixed economy...