Word: frontieres
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting in your "Myth of America" section, and the demure, totally glam English grad student asks you to analyze and describe the mythic aspects of an L.L. Bean ad. A first-year jumps up and starts to shout: "The frontier, Daniel Boone, Emerson, mythic contradictions, Poe as the anti-mother, Freud, Oedipus, Daniel Cooper..." He bites his tongue off and blood begins to spurt out of his mouth...
...indictment. At one point he describes the image that J.F.K.'s inner circle tried to project as one of "cool objectivity, pure information gathering, dispassionate analysis." He must have absorbed some of that style during his long immersion in the archives and artifacts of the New Frontier...
Abouhalima's training site was the frontier city of Peshawar in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, where the major mujahedin parties had their headquarters and where more than 50 Arab relief agencies and unofficial groups had offices. The mujahedin received an estimated $3.5 billion in financial support from the CIA as well, which bankrolled training for the Muslim warriors in the use of explosives and modern weapons. Abouhalima settled in one of the many transit houses known as the House of Friends, where young Arabs were often crammed four to a room...
...east end of Church Street, was a little out of its element geographically. With the Army/Navy Store and the Store 24 as neighbors, the 'Shop's slight trendiness stuck out a bit. But its active position in favor of animal rights made it welcome on this punky frontier, and it stayed...
Nothing epitomizes the transformation of the region from its hardy frontier stereotype more than the city of Boulder (pop. 95,000). Its New Age proclivities are evident on the handbills advertising everything from channeling to aromatherapy on the kiosks along the Pearl Street pedestrian mall. Boulder still accommodates a leftover '60s style, like that of its Buddhist-inspired Naropa Institute, where Allen Ginsberg still holds court each summer. And it regularly hyperventilates with an ultra-liberal world view that has prompted the city council to pronounce itself on foreign policy as readily as on sewage easements. During the Gulf...