Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outpost on the Pacific Coast in 1860, they named it "Ruler of the East," partly to taunt the Chinese. The magnificent harbor was the choicest item in a territorial package that Alexander II had wrested from the politically declining and militarily impotent Manchu rulers of China in one-sided frontier adjustments in the mid-19th century...
...darling of the Arab world. Still basking in his U.N. triumph, the P.L.O. leader last week flew off to Cuba aboard an Algerian Boeing 707 to confer with another revolutionary turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent. Indeed, earlier in the week...
What is the latest word from the sexual frontier? It may be "retreat." Though there is little likelihood that things will ever go back to where they were 30 years ago, the signs are that the sexual avant-garde-those who practice "swinging," group sex, open marriage, bisexuality and the odder forms of experiment-is in decline...
...tradition. In Paris he gets gambled away by his decadent master in a poker game. The proud new keeper is none other than a vulgar American family from the backwoods who struck it rich shouting its way along the grand tour. When they return with poor Ruggles to their frontier town in the Northwest, the butler is utterly lost. Until he begins to discover "what America means." He breaks away from a servile tradition of centuries and strikes off as a small independent businessman. In the famous scene when he recites the Gettysburg Address...
...worries in particular about the contamination of Iran's proud cultural heritage by modern life. In fact, there is an untrammeled kind of frontier spirit on the loose in Iran today; past heritage is being bulldozed into rubble as the country tries to build a future...