Word: plainsman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the furor grew last week, the student newspaper the Plainsman proposed its solution to the crisis: "No more long-winded analyses on the controversy. Dr. Funderburk, for the good of Auburn University, please resign." But President Funderburk, saying he is indeed acting for the good of the university, insists that he will stay...
...Horseback finally lacks the salient characteristic of the Roosevelts-enthusiasm. In spite of Teddy's strenuous self-improvement and relentless selfdiscipline, McCullough finds something spoiled about the prig who talks of keeping himself "pure," for some "rare and radiant maiden" and postures for the camera as "the plainsman" in custom-tailored buckskins with dagger and sheath from Tiffany. The author appears to prefer Black Sheep Elliott, who, lacking what he called his brother's "foolish grit," collapsed under the responsibility of being a Roosevelt, although surviving long enough to father Eleanor, the wife-to-be of Franklin Delano...
...bronze, Givin' the Boys a Show, is a rousing halloo for Remington and the past, a bucking horse with all four legs stiff and off the ground, and a rider waving his hat high. Lovell's Cooling the Big 50 is a powerful charcoal drawing showing a plainsman pouring water on the barrel of his rifle, which he has been firing for some time at an unseen target (buffaloes? attacking Indians...