Word: frontiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost all the parties and their disparate factions agree on the basic issues: absolute neutrality between East and West and trade with the Common Market. Rather like Greta Garbo. Finland vants to be left alone, but it cannot afford to be. Sharing 788 miles of its 1,583-mile frontier with the Soviet Union, with whom it fought brutal losing wars in 1939-43, Finland is secure only while remaining neutral...
After the lettermen come the revivalists. Boniface Baker, the easygoing grandson of a Fox convert and one of De Hartog's compromisers, suddenly catches the old fire again. In his mid-50s, Baker frees his slaves, parcels his indigo plantation among them, and takes off for the frontier. One solid measure of the book is that it makes this radical gesture oddly plausible...
...idealized reflection, not counting repeaters, of course. While the numbers grow, Disneyland is also adding a broad new "land," which should be extremely exciting. This one is called Bear Country and pushes the American mythologizing ever further, since it concentrates on an imaginative recreation of the grand old frontier, featuring life-like animatronic grizzly bears. Furthermore, two new major attractions have recently opened up. One, "It's a Small World," has extraordinary power to awaken certain childhood stereotypes of foreign lands, like Siam, Persia, or China. But even better is the Haunted House. In this house, foot-high three-dimensional...
...great changes in the American consciousness, in Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 thesis, came when the frontier closed. A shift of equal importance, believes Professor James J. Flink of the University of California at Irvine, involves the automobile. Said he at last week's meeting of the American Historical Association in Manhattan: "The era of uncritical mass accommodation to the motorcar has ended; for most Americans, automobility has become simply utilitarian and lost its quasi-religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life...
...still left us, "us" in the sense of the country as a whole, "us" in the sense of John Kennedy's mourners. Certainly, it's for the better that we've been deprived of some illusions, stripped of the comforting passivity of political idolatry, forced to see the New Frontier and the Alliance for Progress as a sham, compelled to recite eulogies for the War on Poverty and for the Great Society, and thrust into the reality, again, of war's immorality, seeing the innocent we've killed and living we've helped destroy. Still, there was some good...