Word: frontierisms
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Thernstrom's argument becomes most shaky when he concludes that Boston, although unique in its age and distance from the frontier, is similar to the vast majority of American cities in its degree of social mobility. He claims that the similar occupational structures in most American cities, plus the great fluidity of the national population throughout the last century have resulted in uniform rates of social mobility...
...Jamieson is a product of the rough-and-tumble earlier days of the Canadian oil business. His father, now 96, is the oldest living veteran of the North West Mounted Police. Jamieson, 63, was born in Medicine Hat, then a frontier outpost on Alberta's bleak prairie with a population of 5,600. Once he shot a bear that wandered too close to the family domicile. He went to the University of Alberta, but determined to become an engineer, transferred to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return to Depression-struck Alberta in 1931, he took any work...
...beginnings. His mother breast-fed him until he was past two. His father taught him to read before he was three, with the help of Pope's translation of the Iliad. It was as if DeVoto were his own tall tale, a product-in-exaggeration of the American frontier that he loved above all to write about until his death...
...United States for assistance, not the Soviet Union. He contacted Secretary of State William Rogers and enlisted the aid of State Department Middle East troubleshooter Joseph Sisco, but they were unable to get the Israelis to budge on the territories, which were rapidly being settled as a Zionist new frontier...
...Muhammad Ali sings the Tennessee Waltz while he spars with Light-Heavyweight Boss Man Jones. "He's got me in the coffin, but he can't nail me," Ali boasts. "He fights like a woman." Ali clinches with Jones and dances round the ring at his isolated, frontier-style training complex, where he sleeps in a cabin equipped with pump-handle faucets and coal stoves. "Tie him up," Ali laughs. "Waltz with him. That's the way you stall for time...