Word: frontierisms
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...dead at Harvard. Perhaps the men who travelled back and forth between Cambridge and Washington so often ten years ago are ashamed of their part, or lack thereof, in the deterioration of this country and the debacle of Vietnam. Perhaps they are disenchanted with the folly of the New Frontier and the Great Society, tired of slogans, and are now looking for the answers back here in Cambridge instead of Washington...
With only two published works to their credit (the other is a children's musical play about Joseph in Egypt), the young team of Lloyd Webber and Rice have pushed forward the frontier possibilities of rock opera and made, just for starters, what Rice calls "a million quid" apiece ($2.4 million). They are becomingly modest about their talents, grateful for their extraordinary luck and sensibly reserved about future plans...
...Your article "Transamazonia: The Last Frontier" [Sept. 13] might more aptly have been headed "Operation Genocide...
...Frontier Ballad...
...mission on Manhattan's First Avenue, where guests sometimes must balance plates on their knees. Bush has invited several of his fellow ambassadors to his summer home in Maine for weekends of tennis, boating, barbecues and tall tales (he is, among other things, an earthy, frontier-style raconteur). This week he will press his points over the national pastime: Bush has invited the permanent representatives and their wives to a New York Mets baseball game...