Word: frontierisms
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...course, we Americans knew that, felt it in our marrow as we marched raucously across a continent. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner explained it to us in 1893, when he wrote of the closing of our Western frontier. "What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States...
...about the same time, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan explained, without saying it in so many words, that this nation's new frontier had to be the task of becoming a great world power. We were, of course, that and more by the time World War II ended. Presidential Science Adviser Vannevar Bush described the logical progression in a report to Harry Truman, "Science--The Endless Frontier." The U.S., through research and its rapid application to the lives of people, would conquer other realms. There were those stars that the quirky European philosopher Paracelsus had dreamed of dominating. Going into space...
...Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Adding insult to injury, the news began to trickle out when John Kennedy had just tossed the first baseball of the season in Griffith Stadium, and he was eating a good old American hot dog. In the perverse ways of a frontier, the discouraging news would goad Kennedy and the country to achievements beyond their dreams...
...tinkertoy, nor did it deign to inappropriately question the uncontested brilliance of the men and women of NASA. America found agony in the immolation of seven remarkable individuals. Who had families just like ours. And dreams every bit as heroic. And the fatal duty of playing pioneer to a frontier no more or less forgiving than the ones we face every day of our lives...
...There are things being done by the manned program that help man a great deal," Freeman said. "I believe in the manned program. I believe man does have to go into the final frontier. I just don't want the manned space program to eat the unmanned's lunch...