Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manners makyth man, according to the ancient English axiom. However, it is woman who makyth manners, a behavioral frontier that has traditionally been too sensitive to be guarded by men. From Chaucer's Wife of Bath through Godey's Lady's Book, Emily Post, Amy Vanderbilt and Letitia Baldrige, the doyennes of decorum have defined and refined social norms to the point at which a boilermaker in Metropolis, Ill., knows (from his wife) that it is O.K. to eat bacon with his fingers, while french fries should be conveyed by a fork...
That recurring concern with the security of the frontier seems genuine and deeply ingrained. Long before the massive airlift of soldiers into Afghanistan, Soviet authorities had emphasized the close historical ties between the peoples of Soviet Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, and of Afghanistan. "The Uzbeks and Afghans-we're one people," said Khelyam Khudaiberdiyev, an official of the state radio and television in Tashkent. He went on to express a feeling of almost familial responsibility toward his backward cousins to the south: "We have a saying that our dogs live better than the Afghans lived under the old regime...
...past two weeks. Late last month a surprisingly strong criticism of Karmal's attempts to form a broader political base appeared in the Kabul New Times, a government-run English-language daily. Karmal, who is believed to have ties among both the deposed royal family and the frontier tribes, had included non-Marxists in his government. Knowing that many of the Cabinet members were bitter political enemies, some Western observers in Kabul concluded that the mix was probably unworkable. "Karmal's dilemma is unique," said a diplomat at the time. "To win the people's trust...
...celebrities were among the 100 participants in last week's much touted "March for Survival," organized by the International Rescue Committee and Doctors Across Frontiers, a French aid organization. When this earnest band reached the Cambodia-Thailand frontier they shouted an appeal through a red bullhorn, asking that they be allowed to cross the bridge to Cambodia with 20 truckloads of food and medicine. Rebuffed, the marchers donated the relief supplies to Cambodian refugees in Thai camps...
Squaw Valley: the very name was enough to unhinge the venerable geezers In the international Olympic movement 20 years ago. It simultaneously evoked the worst of California and the wild West, the depravity of Tinseltown and the dangers of the untamed frontier. When the remote resort in the Sierra Nevada was chosen as host of the 1960 Winter Games, one French official fretted: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...