Word: frontierisms
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...Deal forts (reciprocal trade agreements, foreign policy), but where the defenses were low, it attacked mercilessly. Taking as one basic premise the statement "the New Deal misunderstands economic America," the report smashed at what it termed defeatism and reaction in the New Deal, suggested that the passing of the frontier, the slowing-up of the birth rate did not necessarily mean that the nation's plant was overbuilt, nor that industrial and fiscal stagnation must follow...
...both make it mighty interesting. Harvard's lecture-hall Leatherstocking brings it to life with words alone, but in "Northwest Passage," now at Loew's State and Orpheum, Kenneth Roberts has the help of Technicolor, gorgeous location scenes, Spencer Tracy, and Robert Young. Tracy plays the superman of frontier tall tales, Major Rogers of Rogers' Rangers, who performs stupendous feats of leadership on a handful of parched corn a day. It is a delight and a pleasure to see him take an overwritten part like this and make it convincing. Robert Young fares less well as a romantic hero...
...ambitious effort eventually to open for year-round navigation the narrow passage of ice-choked water, now navigable only in summer, which fringes the tundras just south of the Arctic Pack. If that Northeast Passage were open. Russia would have an all-Russian sea route from its European frontier to the Pacific, 3,000 miles shorter than the 9,000-mile Odessa-Vladivostok route, and would fulfill a dream of Peter the Great's to make a place for Russia on the seas. Last week Moscow hailed 15 heroes who had got into a lot of trouble helping...
DELVING down into a close printed jumble of old inaccessible almanacs, Richard M. Dorson '37 has selected and edited in an extremely readable way the best of the Davy Crockett stories. That fantastic legendary figure, a combination of an epic hero and a coarse, earthy frontier representation of Baron Munchausen, is more than just an early example of American humor at its broadest and most extravagant. The Crockett Almanacs, with their crazy exaggerations and crudities and all their local color, have real literary value and show the frontier spirit at its best and worst...
...illuminating introduction, Mr. Dorson makes a general discussion of "Frontier Humor and Legend." He treats with the exaggeration, verbal imagery, and other conventions of this frontier humor. Most significantly of all, he mentions the "unmistakable sameness to the varied versions of the American tall tale--It is the frontiersman's fun, his escape, his opportunity to create." The Crockett Almanacs are the true expression of the frontier; as such Mr. Dorson has done a valuable service in making this material accessible...