Word: frontiersmen
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...horse on the capitol grounds, and more pioneers stare bold-eyed from murals on the rotunda walls. Three weeks ago the city got a chance to put up still another tribute to its past, but this time it was a figure that looked strikingly different from the hardy frontiersmen. The statue: a hippy bronze nude by France's great Pierre Auguste Renoir...
Moreover, if architects are a combination of Mary and Martha, Harrison is mostly Martha. He has no place among such frontiersmen of architecture as Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan* and Walter Gropius. He is not even sure that he is a modern. A Harrison-styled building is applied modern-the kind that the purists boggle at but John Doe likes...
...Just like the frontiersmen he lectures about," students told one another as they marvelled at the feat. "Pioneer Merk," he was referred to affectionately by the undergraduates...
...different angles for each picture, letting the same posse race through six different patches of countryside for the chase scenes. Early in his producing days, he told an interviewer: "I see about ten movies every weekend. Well, I see a movie I like, and we just change legionnaires to frontiersmen and the Arabs to Indians, and we start shooting...
...other great failure of Protestantism, says Niebuhr, lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...