Word: frontierment
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...subject is the twilight of Empire. The year is 1878, but already night has fallen all along India's northwest frontier. Someone in the 20th Indian Light Cavalry is assaulting women. The entire regiment is in a flap. Surly, cynical Second Lieut. Edward Millington (James Faulkner) is accused of brutalizing comely Marjorie Scarlett (Susannah York), widow of a regimental hero...
...particularly American elements that have almost become cliches: the loosening of many moral and social restraints on all kinds of behavior in an increasingly lax society; the decline of tradition and the breakdown of the family; the mobility of American life that so often turns into rootlessness; the U.S. frontier culture of violence and its still lingering love affair with guns?the litany can go on and on. But finally the problem of why the U.S. has so many kooks, and the lack of any final answer, may come down to a dilemma inherent in freedom. The Bill of Rights...
Guns have bred more guns. Because of the terrifying proliferation of handguns in the past few years-they are increasing at the rate of 2.5 million per year-more people are buying them in self-defense. It is not just the frontier mentality that lingers on in America; to a considerable extent in big cities, frontier conditions have been reestablished because of the surge in violent crime. Ira Latimer, executive vice president of the American Federation of Small Business, told Conyers' subcommittee: "The gun is the self-defense weapon of the cities. Small businessmen need them to survive." Some...
...Newer Frontier. There is little doubt among oilmen now that the North Sea will pay off for its biggest gamblers, although just how much remains to be seen. For whatever oil it has left over for export, Britain should find a ready market in Western Europe; about one-fifth of Europe's energy may eventually come from the North Sea. Norway is already feeling pressure to speed up development from industrialists eager to spur the economy, and it probably will do so in the chillier, deeper and more treacherous waters above the 62nd parallel where even richer oil deposits...
There are other important reasons for the U.S. to maintain its power in Asia. It has sea-lanes to protect and a western frontier to guard. Above all, there are the non-Communist countries of East and Southeast Asia that have been allies of the U.S. in the past and that the U.S. can now, in the post-Viet Nam atmosphere, assist in new ways. A lower military profile will enable the U.S. to concentrate on economic and technological aid to these nations...