Word: frontierisms
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...Tarzan, who you? For the next two or three weeks Bobby Kennedy Jr., 20, will be swinging through the Kenya bush. As star and narrator of a forthcoming TV series, The Last Frontier, Bobby plays himself, an American city boy learning how to live in the wilds of Africa. His part demands several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair...
...Scotland's "Act of Excyse." Usquebaugh distillers in Scotland and Ulster generally felt the way Burns did. In the early 1700s most of them migrated to the American colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid and often hilarious history...
...couldn't care less for the standards during the regular year," Crooks says. "Open admissions is one of the main reasons why I stay here. The exclusionary atmosphere here during the school year often becomes stifling. I see the summer school as being on the frontier, as being typical of what colleges will be like in the year...
...three Southwestern states-Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. The land was ceded to the Navajos in 1868, after the Indians had been battered into submission by Colonel Kit Carson. Today the reservation is in effect a separate nation-state, subject to neither state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power, and with it a renewed sense of pride. Some Navajos these days drive cars with bumper...
...less dated. Editor of the National Guardian and a British citizen, Belfrage was deported from the United States in 1955. He has now written a detailed but superficial chronicle of the persecution of American radicals--whom he prefers to call "heretics"--in the post-World War II, pre-New Frontier...