Word: frontierment
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...some time now, that religion has been corroded by doubt. Intractable inflation seems to have turned the good life into a treadmill and has shaken our confidence in the future?America's last frontier. Our industry appears to have lost its productive magic, its daring, and sometimes even its competence. Our Government is intrusive, inept?and expensive. Our democracy too often produces only mediocrity and deadlock...
...last forever in a land whose central idea from the first Pilgrim landfall onward has been physical and spiritual renewal, the fresh start, the future in which literally anything is possible. Often in their history Americans have returned to that theme of vigorous dawn departures-physically to the frontier, spiritually in the Great Awakening, socially through the immense renovation of the New Deal...
...nation interprets itself is changing. Many believe that some time around the beginning of the New Frontier, the power of explaining America to Americans fell to a liberal, sometimes radical "new class"-academics, elitists, journalists -which, although accurate up to a point, somehow got the story wrong or told it from a vantage point of supercilious and frequently privileged hostility. "We have met the enemy and he is us," they wrote, quoting Pogo. Americans developed a moral inferiority complex of historic proportions: where once they hubristically viewed themselves as the world's best, many came to see America...
Stationed in the Malakand subdistrict, Banuri found the lifestyle similar to what he had seen in westerns as a child. He recalls that he once mistook a film of the American west for the Pakistani frontier. The people have similar attitudes about survival, and they rely mainly on themselves--"We have a very individual culture. When you grow up you are told you must safeguard your own rights...
After spending two years in the magistracy, he transferred to the planning division of the government of the province of the North-western Frontier because "power is seductive. It warps your personality. You become paternalistic and high-handed...