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...genre has made a modest comeback recently, with such shows as Paradise and The Young Riders), and a small handful of hit series have been set in the past. But these shows were mainly interested in using the past for its symbolic or mythic value. The Minnesota frontier of Little House on the Prairie and the Depression-era South of The Waltons were essentially the same locale: an all-American Everyplace, where ethical issues and family dramas could be worked out against an idealized backdrop, far from the messy moral ambiguities of modern days...
...Vannevar Bush, presidential science adviser in Science: The Endless Frontier...
...contradictions in its own position. The question the radicals must answer is, Why are they Christians at all? Many radicals argue that the way to religious empowerment was pioneered by Jesus as if he were a kind of Kit Carson of the soul. But who needs pioneers once the frontier is opened? It often seems that the radicals cling to Jesus for the sake of the name ID and some pretty 19th century buildings erected in his name...
...impurities," editor Lewis Lapham of Harper's has written, and their ambition was to build a New Jerusalem on earth despite all of life's uncertainties. In both spiritual and secular guise, that has been a recurring theme in U.S. history, from the Great Awakening of the early frontier days to the noble experiment of Prohibition...
...only depravity uncharted might be cannibalism, a last frontier that fastidious man has mostly declined to explore. Evil is a different sort of gourmet...