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...Turkey. There is no rational reason for Turkey to expand westward. We could and should remain good neighbors. But we should respect each other's sovereign territory. Turkey maintains 120,000 troops equipped with landing craft in the Aegean. Obviously, this is not for defense against the Soviet Union. It seems aimed at Greece. It's a bitter fact...
There are those who would have us believe that L.A. is the happy zenith of our Westward Ho, but the truth of the matter remains that the city stands as positive proof that William Bradford was right when he suspected we were bound for horror from the moment we hit Plymouth. Some fundamental hideousness has always festered in the American mind, and as it rolled west it seemed to snowball, until, three thousand miles later, it had become an entire metropolis filled with ragged vegetation and arthropodal people. L.A. siphons off the nation's psychoceramics the same way it siphons...
DIED. Ray Allen Billington, 77, historian who chronicled the westward movement of the American frontier in such scholarly but vivid books as Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier (1949) and this year's Land of Savagery, Land of Promise; of a heart attack; in San Marino, Calif. Billington taught from 1944 to 1963 at Northwestern University, where he showed generations of undergraduates the way West in a course known as Cowboys and Indians...
...about Barry Hannah in the periodicals, they always bring up the Southern Writer thing. Southern Writers. The phrase rolls blissfully off the tongue as if it actually mertied those majuscules. It rolls off the tongue like a fait accompli, like some sort of advertising slogan. Southern Writers. Northern Lights. Westward...
...America so young in years; yet we suddenly seem old from responsibility. Just 20 years ago, Poet Robert Frost came to town to recite at John Kennedy's Inauguration: "Such as we were we gave ourselves outright/ . . . To the land vaguely realizing westward,/ But still unstoried, artless, un-enhanced." Kennedy answered: "The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." Ike huddled in his coat, white scarf up around his neck on that day. When the Inaugural was over, the defeated Richard Nixon slipped down the Senate steps of the Capitol front and disappeared into the dark...