Word: frontierment
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...Poor Man's James Bond, a handbook of "improvised weaponry and do-it-yourself mayhem," with simple instructions for making firearms, tear gas, explosives, zip guns and even flamethrowers. Saxon, 48, is an Ozarks-based writer and publisher. Like many survivalists, he is inspired by romantic notions of frontier self-reliance. He has six guns of his own, and come Armageddon, he plans to support himself by hunting, making everything he needs and cultivating his quarter-acre garden of peppers, sunflowers and watermelons. Says Saxon: "I'm telling people to get out of the cities and move...
...media powers that be quickly filed away under classic, drew on the fathers of Democratic liberalism--Ronald Reagan "has no right to quote the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt," Kennedy said to the biggest cheers of his address. Offering a "New Hope" where his brother had offered a "New Frontier," Kennedy moved beyond his standard economic line to evoke the image not only of a generation mired in economic misery, but also a "generation unsurpassed in its potential...
...Payments under the panoply of federal programs designed to return laid-off workers to the labor force or to train those without skills will swell this year to $11 billion. Since the Federal Government launched its all-out war on unemployment, beginning with President John Kennedy's New Frontier in the early 1960s, a startling $88 billion has been spent on an encyclopedia of job programs. But, at the same time, the number of unemployed people increased from 3.9 million in 1962 to the current 8.2 million, and the jobless rate from...
...beginning all the world was America." John Locke's 300-year-old phrase still keeps its haunting simplicity. For generations, America meant the part of the earth that was not corrupt, not worn by labor, tainted by inequality or poisoned by greed. This myth of paradise-on-the-frontier pervaded 18th century ideas about America and, by the mid-19th, had become one of the chief regulating ideas of America's discourse about itself: "That unfallen, western world," as Melville wrote in Moby Dick, "which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories...
Still the gamier, scandalous side of presidential families most concerns and entertains Americans. Thomas Jefferson, that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their...