Word: frontiersman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Noble lecturer Alexander Miller stressed last night the dependence of the Church and of society upon the contemporary heretic," and the "intellectual frontiersman" for the revitalization of traditions...
...America's real needs is a greater social stratification. A "rising middle class" seems to be absorbing all Americans and their values into its omnivorous Levittowns. Unfortunately, our soil has been tilled by the frontiersman or the commercial farmer--both of them interested in improving their position in society. Thus the middle class has been increased in numbers, while there has been no class lovingly devoted--like the Russian peasant--to the land. Although we realize that mere economic measures would not bring about the desired social structure, it is also true that the older European corporate and feudal system...
After the war, he published The Age of Jackson, challenging the standard analysis of Jackson as the arch frontiersman, and reinterpreting the period with more emphasis on its intellectual values and the urban roots of its reform spirit. Though he is modest about the book's merits, it earned him a Pulitzer Prize for History at the age of twentyeight. Much of the book was written, a friend claims, with "one twin on each knee." Schlesinger still continues to do much of his work amid the clamor of his children, now increased to four...
DAVY CROCKETT CRAZE is dying as fast as the frontiersman's b'ar. Retailers in Manhattan, Chattanooga, St. Louis all report that volume has tumbled as much as 90% in the past few months with little sign of a pickup...
...more than 250 years, the horse was to America what the sailing ship was to the British Empire: carrier of arms and men, of commerce, of mail. Harnessed to the plow, the horse helped the frontiersman turn wilderness into civilization...