Word: frontierisms
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...made a remarkable but unsubstantiated claim that the U.S. had committed itself to the defense of Israel during the October war. Said a high Egyptian official: "As to security, the Israelis already have a guarantee. Kissinger has made us understand that, if our armies had started to cross the frontier into Israel, the U.S. would have used force to stop us. It seems to me that's enough guarantee for Israel, and frankly, that's all right with...
...good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews and commentary, for example, throw a welcome personal light on Hopper's laconic pessimism and Davis' exuberant jazz-age Cubism. Convincingly, O'Doherty sees Pollock's drip paintings as a very American frontier quest for raw sensation-a kind of painter's version of the Great American Novel...
...have also attempted repeatedly to make inroads in the Himalayan border states of Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, whose people are of Tibetan extraction, claiming that these are Chinese-dependent states taken from their motherland by the imperialists who divided China early in this century. In addition, India's Northeast Frontier Agency is claimed by China as part of its former dependencies. In 1962, the Chinese moved 30,000 troops into the territory--where the inhabitants are predominantly Tibeto-Burmese of Mongolian origin--and laid claim...
Peking's local offers of autonomy to these states culminated in a policy to establish a Confederation of Himalayan Border States, which would include Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and the Northeast Frontier of India. The confederation has yet to become a reality...
...Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, whose profligate inventions spurred cheap consumption. Even the Great Depression could not shake the habits of acquisition. F.D.R.'s reference to "the more abundant life" was too enticing to examine. So were the now forgotten promises of the Fair Deal, the New Frontier and the Great Society...