Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their art, having created a smooth and masterful whole from diverse and individual bits and pieces, having molded a swashbuckling and exciting style of diamond exhibition, having succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of a John Harvard Doubleday and brought national acclaim to the bleak and Puritan New England athletic frontier, the Harvard baseball team is back...
Armed with sophisticated Communist weaponry, the Yermonian army last week swept across the frontier of its southern neighbor, the peace-loving desert nation of Argos. While the Argosian army reeled back toward its coastal capital, Port of Palms, a U.S. Marine amphibious unit began steaming through the Sea of Bristol...
...lack of emotion, Reynolds treats her in much the same way as her husband did. He transforms a rebellious, well-bred lady who doesn't know how to make a cup of coffee into a worshipful companion who scrubs his table and cooks his food. In Cat Dancing's frontier-era West, where women were more scarce than Radcliffe women in Mather House, Reynolds' passionless sexism passes for real humanity...
...movie makes a misguided stab at social consciousness. Reynolds, as a man who has lived with and married Indians, is set against the rampant anti-Indian feeling on the frontier. But Cat Dancing's Indians appear as marauders or fools. "The cigar was one of the white man's good ideas," grins a supposedly sagelike Indian chief. The chief's son, a member of Reynolds' gang, is killed defending Miles from a band of thieving Indians. Reynolds attempts to sum up the problems of the 19th Century American Indian in a one-sentence eulogy: "He wanted to be a leader...
...Bohemia were arriving that Willa could go for days without hearing English spoken outside her house. She was wildly excited. To her, the prairie grass looked as if it were running; it seemed possible to hear the corn growing in the summer night. In the next eleven years, the frontier was to vanish. "The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies." When Cather began to write, it was already with powerful nostalgia...