Word: frontierisms
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Another source of comfort used to be the countless signs of American inventiveness and ingenuity, a tradition stretching from colonial tinker to modern technocrat, asserting not only mastery over nature but also a sly, triumphant outwitting of every kind of adversity. It was the frontier spirit mechanized. Despite the triumph of the moon voyages, that spirit now seems suddenly unequal to mundane problems: they are beyond the powers of technological or scientific tinkering...
...swift and resounding victory, their morale soared. But last week, on the third anniversary of the war, their mood was souring into one of gloom and uncertainty, and they were beginning to wonder whether they had really won a war, or merely the opening skirmish of a war. Frontier terrorism, constant clashes on the Suez Canal and anxiety about Soviet intentions have created a profound political and psychological malaise...
...beginning of the Summer term in 1942, the end of the class's freshman year, President Conant delivered a speech to students in which he said, "Class privilege destroys our frontier heritage. We must curtail hereditary privilege and extend the doctrines of equal opportunity. We must reverse the trend of the past 50 years and restore a high degree of social mobility in the country." In 1941 Conant had written an article for Atlantic Monthly in which he made several proposals for reform of American society in order to justify the loss of young men's lives in the upcoming...
Three years of unresolved hostility help account for the change. Every border settlement exists under the gun. This week it is the frontier with Lebanon (see following story). Next week it might be the border with Syria. The greatest cause of concern, however, is the big Soviet buildup in Egypt and what the Israelis regard as a timid U.S. response -though Washington last week began talking considerably tougher...
...Israel's army is very long and its blows are heavy, and those responsible for this crime will pay for it." Shortly after the bus attack, Israeli artillery on the border began to shell the Lebanese villages of Bint Jbeil, Yaroun, Aitaroun and Blida across the frontier from the site of the attack. Lebanon reported 13 civilians killed in the barrage, 32 wounded and 83 houses hit. Crowds of Lebanese took to the roads, joining refugees still homeless after the Israeli reprisal raid of two weeks ago. Their exodus may prove a wise move, for Israel's anguished...