Word: frontierment
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...Kennedy often seems to be trying to accommodate himself to as broad a range of views as possible. Sometimes he sounds much like a New Frontier liberal. To Wall Street investors in New York, and again at a rally in Louisville, he said that Americans "are not asking much from Government," and then went on to define "not much" as jobs, moderate supermarket prices, reasonable mortgage rates, good schools, a healthy environment and safe streets. Providing all that in today's world economy is quite an order, even for a pragmatist. On other occasions, Kennedy has seemed to be harking...
...John Seigenthaler the New Frontier was more than a cliche. "It was the sense for all of us entering the government in 1960 that the guard was changing, that collectively we would change the nature of public service...
...book is no political tract, no sterile self-righteous condemnation of oppression. Rather, Burger's Daughter is an intensely personal vision of political commitment--and its costs. Through the character of Rosa Burger we sense the emotional toll of living in a country with epic conflicts, a frontier where every action must be extreme: either gutless capitulation or heedless defiance. There is no middle ground in a country where there are still heroes...
...when the McKay expedition sets out, the West seemed a welcoming, fertile frontier. McMahon so skillfully intertwines fact and fiction that the experience of his protagonist is not merely typical; it is vivid, and exacting, and the two strands are often hard to sort out from one another...
Once settled in his new town, Equilibrium, Kansas, McKay falters. The bees become diseased, his wife unfaithful and unhappy, and the Germans never get over the strangeness of the land. The process of discovery is both exciting and fearful--and relentless. By putting himself at the frontier, McKay, along with those who accompanied him, has relinquished the possibility of retreat. He has himself face to face with the challenge of nature; the bees bring it home...