Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is the cowboy of El Dorada. Chandler, using the West again as a frontier, with an unfamiliar lifestyle, offers a similar formula. Marlowe operates out of a unique, a personal system of value. Consequently, he is only nominally legitimate. His world is as moral as he makes it, but, on the highest levels, he is an intensely moral man. Marlowe is certainly his own man. He has codes of morality, justice, legitimacy. And he is comfortable in an urban, mechanized world. Even though the same essential things happen in each succeeding Chandler novel, the character...
...disruptive-land boom is grossly inflating prices; a new social attitude is replacing the old idea that a man could do with his property as he damn well pleased. In this special section TIME first examines the dimensions, causes and consequences of the new land rush, which far surpasses frontier land fever. It then compares prices of acreage in various parts of the country, contrasts the experiences of happy and unhappy home purchasers, and gives some tips on how to avoid being rooked when buying land. Finally, it explores the new ways in which communities are trying to control...
These stories are symptomatic of a virulent outbreak, in modern, urbanized America, of an early frontier frenzy: land fever. Around metropolitan centers, real estate developers are pushing suburbia farther and farther into the countryside. Out in the deserts and woodlands, people who want vacation homes are scrambling to pick up pieces of the good earth. They are being joined by speculators, who have rediscovered in real estate the fast-buck thrills that a droopy stock market rarely provides. Citizens are taking seriously the advice of Humorist Will Rogers: "Buy land. They ain't makin'any more...
Whether because of the newness of their position, their frontier heritage, or their lack of old-school ties, they tend to be without particular concerns about the niceties of business ethics and morals, and therefore to be connected more than earlier money would have thought with shady speculations, political influence-peddling, corrupt unions, and even organized crime...
Whether because of the newness of their position, their frontier heritage, or their lack of old-school ties, they tend to be without particular concerns about the niceties of business ethics and morals, and therefore to be connected more than earlier money would have thought with shady speculations, political influence-peddling, corrupt unions, and even organized crime...