Word: frontier
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...much larger Hindu minority than the West: 10 million out of a population of 78 million, compared with 800,000 Hindus out of a population of 58 million in the West. In Brit ish India days, the western reaches of what is now West Pakistan formed the frontier of the empire, and the British trained the energetic Punjabis and Pathans as soldiers. They scorn the lungi, a Southeast Asian-style sarong worn by the Bengalis. "In the East," a West Pakistani saying has it, "the men wear the skirts and the women the pants. In the West, things...
...Married. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., 53, Pulitzer-prizewinning historian (in 1946 for The Age of Jackson and in 1966 for A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House), intellectual fixture of the New Frontier and now a Professor at the City University of New York; and Alexandra Emmet Allan, 35, daughter of the late Lily Gushing, noted painter; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...Brown also has a special feeling for the likes of his protagonist, who for all her conning ways is a pint-size frontier woman-tough, gritty, fiercely protective of her man. "Watching after a man is a hard, worrisome thing," she says, after opening Long Boy's eyes to a floozy's designs on his money. Most of the time on their travels, she and Long Boy share a room, but their relationship is almost puritanically free of any Nabokovian decadence. Addie's speech, however, is vulgar, pungent country talk, which adds greatly to the book...
...arms race could lead not only to distorted social priorities but also possibly to a shooting war. Only a few weeks ago, a World War H-vintage Venezuelan North American B-25 bomber fired on a pair of U.S. Bell Huey helicopters that were mapping the Guajira frontier between Colombia and Venezuela, where oil exploration is under way. In part because Caracas fears that Bogota might bring its shiny new French-made Mirages into the argument, the Venezuelans have increased their oil taxes-to the great displeasure of the U.S. oil companies there-and announced plans to spend $35.5 million...
Spiritual revivals are, of course, a longstanding American tradition. George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards led the first Great Awakening in the 1740s and there have been others since: the frontier camp meetings at the beginning of the 19th century, the great revival of the 1850s, and the Pentecostal explosion at the beginning of the 20th century. The Jesus revolution, like the others, has a flavor peculiarly American. Its strong Pentecostalism emphasizes such esoteric spiritual gifts as speaking in tongues and healing by faith. For many, there exists a firm conviction that Jesus' Second Coming is literally at hand. Proclaiming...