Word: frontierisms
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Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe is the cowboy of El Dorada. Chandler, using the West again as a frontier, with an unfamiliar lifestyle, offers a similar formula. Marlowe operates out of a unique, a personal system of value. Consequently, he is only nominally legitimate. His world is as moral as he makes it, but, on the highest levels, he is an intensely moral man. Marlowe is certainly his own man. He has codes of morality, justice, legitimacy. And he is comfortable in an urban, mechanized world. Even though the same essential things happen in each succeeding Chandler novel, the character...
Whether because of the newness of their position, their frontier heritage, or their lack of old-school ties, they tend to be without particular concerns about the niceties of business ethics and morals, and therefore to be connected more than earlier money would have thought with shady speculations, political influence-peddling, corrupt unions, and even organized crime...
Whether because of the newness of their position, their frontier heritage, or their lack of old-school ties, they tend to be without particular concerns about the niceties of business ethics and morals, and therefore to be connected more than earlier money would have thought with shady speculations, political influence-peddling, corrupt unions, and even organized crime...
...their art, having created a smooth and masterful whole from diverse and individual bits and pieces, having molded a swashbuckling and exciting style of diamond exhibition, having succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of a John Harvard Doubleday and brought national acclaim to the bleak and Puritan New England athletic frontier, the Harvard baseball team is back...
Armed with sophisticated Communist weaponry, the Yermonian army last week swept across the frontier of its southern neighbor, the peace-loving desert nation of Argos. While the Argosian army reeled back toward its coastal capital, Port of Palms, a U.S. Marine amphibious unit began steaming through the Sea of Bristol...