Word: frontierisms
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...these have provided ammunition for the political opposition, as has Bhutto's own highhanded tactics in putting them down. When his provincial cabinet minister for the Northwest Frontier province was murdered last February, Bhutto banned the National Awami Party-the principal party in the province-and arrested 300 of its leaders, including Khan Abdul Wali Khan, the leader of the opposition in the National Assembly. Most are still in jail. The battle grew more heated when security forces last month threw the opposition members out of the National Assembly, following a quarrel over passage of a constitutional amendment...
...education proper, the variations were wide. Of course, there was no widespread, relatively uniform public school system. In the rural areas and on the frontier, children were apprenticed early or simply worked alongside their parents at farming or housekeeping. Most city children in the North went to schools-but for varying lengths of time. Tutors were often an alternative in the South where distances between plantations made public schools impractical. Private schools were founded to serve the interests of those who wanted their children taught intensively and maybe with a particular religious point of view. In New England, parents...
...would predominate. He became decorative in the late 17th century and positively rococo in the 18th, peering from cartouches, dallying under formalized palms. The ideas of Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier, the theme of racial destruction in a wild, vast landscape evoked lamentations from romantic artists who had never been there-especially from Delacroix, whose Les Natchez, 1824-35, is an American cousin to his Massacre at Chios...
...late 'sixties exploded the "New Frontier" assumption that personal career advancement is complementary to the welfare of all the people, sending many students stumbling across class lines as cab-drivers, carpenters, farmers, factory-workers, and bums. The spiritual nub of their "downward mobility" was a thirst to encounter the world differently from the way a newly-minted upper middle class professional does--to encounter it with reverence, in dialogue, and with some of that delight, that "excellency of childhood" (Reinhold Niebuhr) without which all the wellsprings of human endeavor run dry. They felt that, if permanently cast as "professionals...
...meeting in the Manhattan offices of Architect I.M. Pei last week was a reconvening of the New Frontier. Almost the entire Kennedy family was there (Jacqueline Onassis arrived 20 minutes late and was reprimanded by a receptionist); so were Robert McNamara, Burke Marshall, C. Douglas Dillon and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. The luminaries had gathered not to launch a new candidacy, however, but to decide once and for all the location of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library and Museum. Finally, after family members had left the room twice to caucus, the entire board made its decision: the $14 million complex...