Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frontier Madness. Fiedler makes an interesting distinction between nostalgic evocations of a West long since tamed in a net of superhighways, and the truer, mythological West of rebirth and renewal that is always in the future. "The real opposite of nostalgic," he says, "is psychedelic, the reverse of remembering is hallucinating, which means that, insofar as the New Western is truly New, it, too, must be psychedelic." So the Red Man reappears, bearing his gifts of marijuana and peyote that threaten 20th century values in much the same way as the white man's whisky threatened the Indian...
...Certainly Nixon is at home with the congressional wing of the party, oriented toward the Middle West and limit ed government, while Rockefeller is of the Eastern Establishment, prone to look first toward the executive branch. Yet if during the '60s Goldwater has symbolized Republicanism's right frontier and Rockefeller its left, Nixon falls well between. On several of the big emotional issues defined in liberal-conservative terms, Nixon has fallen on the liberal side. He was denouncing the John Birch Society and right-wing extremism in California before it became fashionable for Republicans...
...masters have been claiming high prices for years, but the most recent success story in the art market deals with a contingent of sleepers who, like Rip Van Winkle, are returning to public esteem after a century of obscurity. American 19th century painting, from the works of such frontier reporters as George Caleb Bingham, whose pictures today bring as high as $250,000, to the early 20th century cityscapes of the Ashcan School, is enjoying a remarkable revival. A Hudson River landscape by Frederick Church that sold for $3,500 in the 1950s went last year...
...book did more than add a colorful catch phrase to the language. With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector?housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare?it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. "I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend," he said, "if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted...
...comparatively quiescent during the two-year reign of Premier Paul Vanden Boeynants' center-right coalition government. Then Louvain's Flemish students, who make up 55% of the enrollment, demanded that the linguistically divided university be broken up and the French-speaking part moved into Wallonia (a linguistic frontier drawn up in 1963 places Louvain seven miles inside Flanders). Moving the French-speaking students and professors to Wallonia would cost an estimated $140 million and seriously damage the prestige and resources of the 543-year-old institution...