Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent issue of the Journal of Safety Research, he makes a sweeping generalization about snowmobile enthusiasts: they court danger to achieve satisfactions that their dull jobs cannot provide. The problem, Klein theorizes, stems from the discrepancy between cultural values and reality. The derring-do that had survival value in frontier days is still extolled in the U.S.; yet it is obsolete. In an industrialized nation where most jobs are routine, a man cannot win status through on-the-job valor. To compensate, he surrounds himself with power tools, outboard motors, high-performance cars, snowmobiles and the like. These give...
...Hughes Airwest, Allegheny, Frontier, Mohawk, North Central, Ozark, Piedmont, Southern and Texas International...
Kennedy and Johnson changed that--Kennedy by raising expectations of government support, and Johnson by moving towards fulfilling them. Regardless of how successfully they have dealt with the actual problems, the Model Cities, Head Starts and Job Corps of the New Frontier and the Great Society have irrevocably made what used to be called civil rights into the hard issue of black power...
Once upon a time, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants-Puritans and the children of Puritans-clamped a code on America as tight as the pillory. Ramrod stiff with duty, tense with work ethic, the code operated splendidly on the frontier, and more or less adequately until after World War II. But then WASP "defaulted on their birthright of cussedness and irreverence" and turned into what Schrag calls the "plastic WASP." Still claiming to be the model-the only model-for a Good American, the plastic WASP has ended up a crabby tyrant of pallid respectability...
...response was instantaneous. Within four days after the new regulations went into effect along the Oder-Neisse frontier, 15,000 Poles trooped into East Germany, snapping up cameras, household appliances and electric shavers, which are almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...