Word: frontierisms
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...does so with a sense of history that is key to the attitudes of the characters involved. In 1962, a generation was desperate and restless, bursting out of its skin. As it began to define itself against the constant background of radio and TV, a get-up-and-go, frontier mentality built up, confused but real, only to find expression later in the decade. Here in '62, though, before the assassination, the experience of the civil rights movement, the Beatles and the war consciousness, the energy was bottled. The inhibitions of the fifties were so constraining that there wasn...
Society, for Lelouch, has gone either abstract and artificial or money-mongering. The straight world has been sissified for sex. To save your sex, then, you have got to leave society--just as Simon, criminal, has staked out the last male frontier, the rough, untamed places where men can be men. Witness his Western hero style, the steady shoulders and gruff speech, the way he follows his fate, the loner doing what must be done. He's like the old maid's dream boyfriend, daredevil to the world, all sweetness to her. No weaknesses, no fetishes, no perversities...
...army's top political commissar and a member of the nine-man Politburo standing committee and of the party's military affairs commission. He was sent from Peking to the crucial northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area. But there was speculation that his transfer north was also designed to loos...
...brain is the newest and perhaps last frontier in man's exploration of himself. Crossing that frontier could have the same impact on humanity as the discovery that the earth was round. "We are like the Europeans of the 15th century," rhapsodizes one brain researcher. "We're standing on the shores of Spain or Portugal, looking out over the Atlantic. We know that there is something on the other side and that our discovery of exactly what this is will mean that things in our world will never be the same again...
...that may be, it is not too harsh to say that White might have received less critical veneration if he came from Wales or Idaho. Still, for 30 years he has quietly written long, uncompromising and cerebral novels. Voss (1957), a study of a German exploring the Australian interior frontier, shimmered with metaphysical mirages. With desert-dry irony, The Solid Mandala (1966) considered the lives of twin brothers, respectively a librarian and a simpleton, and praised feeling at the expense of intellect. Three years ago, in The Vivisector, he produced an ambitious account of an artist who coldly rejects life...