Word: frontierisms
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Then for some months, I dug my manuscripts up from their hiding places in the ground, photographed them and buried them again. I have succeeded in bringing those films across the frontier with me-thousands of pages on film, everything I have ever written in my life. They include my known works, such as Babi Yar, but in its true form. They also include things that could not be published in Russia. And some that I doubt whether I shall be able to publish in the West...
...prejudge this first step into the new frontier...
...researchers make such a confounded mystery of modern man's deteriorated capacity for interceding in the affairs of his neighbors [July 18]? Any adult over 30 knows most of the answers. The obvious villains are civilization, urbanization and specialization. Since the disappearance of the frontier, we have become a race of emasculated, unarmed, untrained, helpless nonfighters, who live in a "packaged" mass-media dream world and have been brainwashed to leave the dirty work to trained professionals: police, doctors, lawyers, soldiers, firemen, plumbers, etc. We have seen too many heroes and do-gooders get shot, knifed, beaten, insulted, embarrassed...
...Forces. Nonetheless, the U.S. has opened another frontier in space, and there is no material reason why it cannot do so on earth if only it has the will. In 1893, Historian Frederick Jackson Turner described the American qualities born of frontier life: "That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom." All this could be applied to causes even more arduous-and at least...
...crisis, courage has been reasserted. The quality has both old and new dimensions in the technological age. Man's restless probes into the unknown have not exhausted his chances of danger and courage; they have merely spurred him to probe further. The more he knows, the bigger his frontier, from the atom to space. In a day of committee decisions and anonymous heroes, he has changed his style-but not much else...