Word: frontierisms
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...teaching at Cornell, wrote that: 1) Canadians are regional in outlook and "regionalist art fails because it stresses the superficial at the expense ... of the universal"; 2) Canadians are strong Puritans and "Puritanism . . . dis-believes in the importance of art"; 3) Canadians live a disguised form of the frontier life where art plays second fiddle to the hockey game and whiskey bottle; 4) for all of Canada's Dominion status, the average Canadian is still colonial-minded - "an unwholesome state of mind in which great art is most unlikely to emerge...
Canada used some of her Yankee-dollar surplus to reimburse the U.S. for all expenditures on airfields in the northwest, repay the full cost of a military telephone line from Edmonton to the Alaskan frontier. Some U.S. Army & Navy contracts in Canada will be canceled...
...whistle stops in North Dakota, pick Watford City (TIME, April 3) ? This is not outraged civic pride speaking -just curiosity and amusement. We in North Dakota are grateful for a little favorable publicity. . . . However, you make North Dakota sound like the last frontier. I'll grant that Watford City, along with the rest of northwestern North Dakota, has had its disasters and prosperity on a more epic scale than other parts of the state, but you don't have to be supermen to survive out here...
...shock-absorbent members of San Francisco's famed Commonwealth Club* heard last week one of the most radical ideas in all their oral history. The speaker was Secretary of the Interior Harold LeClare Ickes. His subject: "America's Postwar Frontier...
Whitewashed behind the ears and rouged in Technicolor, this friendly piece of grave robbery substitutes drawling charm for the rawboned, murderous innocence of the frontier. A pretty Indian girl (Linda Darnell) teaches Bill Cody how to write a presentable letter to his pretty Eastern bride-to-be (Maureen O'Hara). Likewise prettily, in a coy ritual with a blanket, they plight their troth. When Bill and his wife break up there is no hint of the fact that he was quite a bronco buster with the ladies, nor does he follow history by accusing his wife of trying...