Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earlier of the man he had beaten for the nomination: Ted Kennedy. His strong, mellifluous voice ringing through the Garden, Kennedy had summoned the party to keep faith with its liberal past and the disadvantaged for whom it has traditionally spoken. Stirring memories of the New Deal and New Frontier glory days, he set off a 43-minute, dancing-in-the-aisles demonstration that far exceeded in noise and enthusiasm anything the Carterites could stage. It was a purely emotional, if not mindless phenomenon. To the assembled delegates, it made little difference that many of the big spending programs...
...Carter managers were determined not to align the President with a platform that called for big spending programs. They gathered their forces together in a small open area amid the five Carter trailers, which were circled like frontier wagons. Jordan called about 50 of the floor whips, wearing bright green vests, to collect around him. Standing on a wooden box, he exhorted the group. "The worst thing in the world for President Carter is to be just sitting here while this platform is rewritten," he said. "We've got to fight every one of these economic reports." Then Strauss...
Commented Joel Fleishman, a Duke University political scientist: "Carter seemed to be still struggling for his New Frontier, his New Deal, his new Fair Deal - but it just wasn't there...
...Poor Man's James Bond, a handbook of "improvised weaponry and do-it-yourself mayhem," with simple instructions for making firearms, tear gas, explosives, zip guns and even flamethrowers. Saxon, 48, is an Ozarks-based writer and publisher. Like many survivalists, he is inspired by romantic notions of frontier self-reliance. He has six guns of his own, and come Armageddon, he plans to support himself by hunting, making everything he needs and cultivating his quarter-acre garden of peppers, sunflowers and watermelons. Says Saxon: "I'm telling people to get out of the cities and move...
...least to 1963, to Martin Luther King Jr.'s soaring, preacherly performance during the March on Washington. Some think of John Kennedy's Inaugural Address; yet as the '60s wore on, the go-anywhere-pay-any-price rhetoric of that bright January day on the New Frontier began to seem not only suspect but even a symptom of the emptiness of eloquence and the woes that fancy talk can lead a country into. Some, with even longer memories, mention Churchill in Fulton, Mo., in 1946 ("An iron curtain has descended . . .") or F.D.R.'s first Inaugural...