Word: flink
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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...great changes in the American consciousness, in Frederick Jackson Turner's 1893 thesis, came when the frontier closed. A shift of equal importance, believes Professor James J. Flink of the University of California at Irvine, involves the automobile. Said he at last week's meeting of the American Historical Association in Manhattan: "The era of uncritical mass accommodation to the motorcar has ended; for most Americans, automobility has become simply utilitarian and lost its quasi-religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life...