Word: frontierisms
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...full-scale war, but far more serious than the nagging frontier clashes that sometimes go on between hostile nations for years. It involves issues that reason, self-interest and compromise could settle, yet it is wrapped in nationalistic and cultural hatreds that seem beyond resolution in this generation. Each side is backed by one of the world's two big powers and yet, while neither the U.S. nor Russia wants war in the Middle East, neither seems capable of making peace...
Already Alaska beckons on the north, and pointing to her wealth of natural resources asks the nation on what new terms the new age will deal with her. -The Frontier in American History, 1920, Frederick Jackson Turner...
Americans have long paid little heed to their frontier of the north, idealizing instead the memory of a Western frontier that is forever gone. Now Alaska increasingly presents what Historian Turner called the "stubborn American environment" with its "imperious summons to accept its conditions." The 49th state's environment is as raw and untouched as the Great Plains and Rockies were 150 years ago, offering anew a spaciousness unknown to urban Americans and an awesome treasure of untapped wealth...
...talks. Then a new clash broke out along the Sinkiang-Kazakhstan border, and in the past month, Peking and Moscow have exchanged serious charges. Peking accused the Russians of causing an astounding 429 border incidents in June and July alone. Moscow countered last week by charging China with 488 frontier violations between June and mid-August, and warned that further encroachments "will be most resolutely rebuffed...
...seek re-election in 1970 seemed buoyed anew. Though he retained serious doubts about his future effectiveness, he seemed convinced for the moment that to quit public life would simply be "letting them" drive him out. Still, nearly all his friends -among them the scholarly subalterns of the New Frontier-are worried about...