Word: frontierisms
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...been previously believed. But there are signs -early ones, to be sure-that public attitudes may be moving in a different direction. In short, the skin kings seem secure for some time to come, but it just may be that they have reached the limits of the New Frontier...
...situation was tolerable only so long as it was misunderstood. To acknowledge the impossibility of a merely political democracy in Vietnam was unthinkable for Americans loyal to the rhetoric of the New Frontier. It would mean facing a choice, unthinkable to them, between economic democracy and no democracy at all, between a hopefully temporary dictatorship of the peasants and the small working class and a hopefully permanent dictatorship of the Army and the small upper bourgeoisie. Inevitably, therefore, American politicians blamed the failure of democracy in Vietnam not on the conditions that made their definition of democracy inadequate...
...wire-encrusted bunkers to protect vulnerable airstrips and command posts, and light planes scour the rough terrain to search for suspicious activity. To make their search easier, the government is evicting 15,000 resident blacks and creating a ten-mile-wide cordon sanitaire along Rhodesia's 800-mile frontier with the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, the springboard for most of the guerrilla activity...
...gnarled peasants at work or the shiny, hopeful faces of village children baking festive rolls in the shape of swastikas, were building on the most popular traditions of 19th century German genre painting-that volkisch sentiment that was Germany's equivalent to America's image of frontier virtue. One sequence says it all: a choir singing carols beneath a light-baubled Christmas tree in a village square. The camera tilts up, slowly and lovingly, to reveal a huge illuminated swastika on top of the tree, dispensing its generous light over the festival. Even today, one cannot laugh...
...Official Secrets Act. Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle, in announcing the unanimous ruling, twitted the Smith government's case against Niesewand: "Factual evidence as opposed to opinion was never given." The court found that Niesewand's reports on guerrilla activity against Rhodesian forces near the Mozambique frontier last year had not damaged the state, but had merely embarrassed the government...