Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heady economic expansion of the past quarter-century, they must now cope with the counterfeit of growth?inflation. Even those who do not accept the gloomy prophecies of the Club of Rome realize that at least some limits to growth must be expected. The feeling of having reached a frontier, a limit of possibility, brings on grave anxieties and confronts politicians with an issue that they sidestepped for years: if there is no longer an ever-expanding pie, how are the portions to be parceled...
Lester, 66, a New Frontier liberal who was vice chairman of President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, does not quarrel with the argument that minorities and (especially) women are vastly underrepresented in higher education. After all, women hold less than 38% of the instructorships and just 5% of the full professorships in U.S. universities. But he does insist that federal efforts to deal with the situation are clumsy and misguided...
...Tarzan, who you? For the next two or three weeks Bobby Kennedy Jr., 20, will be swinging through the Kenya bush. As star and narrator of a forthcoming TV series, The Last Frontier, Bobby plays himself, an American city boy learning how to live in the wilds of Africa. His part demands several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair...
...Scotland's "Act of Excyse." Usquebaugh distillers in Scotland and Ulster generally felt the way Burns did. In the early 1700s most of them migrated to the American colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid and often hilarious history...
...couldn't care less for the standards during the regular year," Crooks says. "Open admissions is one of the main reasons why I stay here. The exclusionary atmosphere here during the school year often becomes stifling. I see the summer school as being on the frontier, as being typical of what colleges will be like in the year...