Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...came a novel opportunity: he was asked to impersonate Anderson as Reagan prepared for their debate in September. The assertive young Congressman was an excellent sparring partner. Among other things, he accused Reagan of wanting to "throw open the door of Alaska to allow the rape of our last frontier" and of being unconcerned about acid rain. Against such thrusts, Reagan practiced calm parries. He responded to Stockman by saying, "Well, you know, John, I think you need a gas mask...
Michener has necessarily compressed much of that history into an almost biblical form, begetting his own intertwining generations of English, black and Afrikaner families-the Saltwoods, Nxuma-los and Van Dooms. He describes the public politeness and private ruthlessness, the arranged frontier marriages-homely Dutch orphan girls shipped out to lonely farmers-and the Afrikaners' thousand torments, among them, the first modern concentration camps, set up by the British during the Boer War. Michener reconstructs that war, and its scenes of tenacity and loathing. Says one Afrikaner, summing up the lessons learned in that conflict: "When you are twelve...
...only on the first frontier of what T.V. is going to do to us," Michener told the crowd of 100 people. "We're going to be in a revolution of a size we cannot envision yet," he added...
After a fierce gun battle of about ten minutes, the assassins abandoned their cars and escaped on foot across the nearby frontier of the Irish Republic. At week's end they were still at large, despite an all-out security operation mounted on both sides of the border...
...country, and the cut of their outfit is cowboy. Country-and-western nightclubs are riding high. In towns and cities from New Paltz, N.Y., to Carmichael, Calif., and North to South, there are now countless sagebrush saloons, corralling urban buckaroos with lively rustic dancing, good ole buddydom and a frontier atmosphere that may owe more to hype than history but is infectious nonetheless. Only a year ago, many of the new spots were disco clubs, whose stylized allure has faded fast in some locales. Now. decked out with steer horns, long bars, and waitresses in Stetsons and hot jeans, they...