单词 | new frontier |
释义 | new frontiern. 1. A newly established frontier, esp. (in U.S. History) one marking a westward expansion of pioneer settlement. Later also: a region offering new opportunity, esp. one which is unfamiliar. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies federalism1787 state rights1787 colonizationism1831 hunkerism1845 Reconstructionism1881 Little Americanism1898 Point Four1949 fairness doctrine1952 new frontier1961 Great Society1964 eleventh commandment1966 Nixon Doctrine1969 1832 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 539 Our fathers saw the great materials of that conquered empire re-combined upon our back in a new form, making a new frontier from south to north, by the sources of the streams flowing to the Atlantic. 1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 23 Oct. 532/2 If there be no new frontier to which he [sc. a farmer] may emigrate, he must either become a better tiller of the ground or suffer starvation. 1919 Outing Mar. 326/2 Marauding animals have long since gone from Boone's cherished Kentucky, but further west, they still make life miserable for the settler. And some of the early Kentucky battles are being fought over again to-day on the new frontier. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 373/2 The Pimas themselves had later given this new frontier a considerable amount of rebellion trouble. 1986 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 Nov. 4/3 ‘To us [sc. the Niçois], Australia is the new frontier. The future is in your part of the world.’.. The ‘new frontier’ tag was one often heard during a week in Nice. 1991 J. Mander In Absence of Sacred viii. 138 The drive of Westerners to convert wild, uncontrolled, and unexplored terrain into productive commodity forms is seeking new frontiers. 2. In extended use. a. gen. Anything which marks or indicates the limits of the present state of knowledge, policy, etc., esp. as a starting point for new work; a new challenge; a new development. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > social service provided by (local) government > specific approaches to reform or social betterment new frontier1912 new deal1932 fair deal1949 1912 Philos. Rev. 21 236 They [sc. the Chicago School] have felt themselves pioneers on a new frontier of speculation. 1930 J. G. Bowman in Jrnl. Higher Educ. 1 16/2 We want it [sc. the ‘Cathedral of Learning’] to become a new frontier in the art which shows us how to use knowledge for the understanding of our lives. 1961 Philadelphia Evening Bull. 5 Mar. ii. 4/4 Power to impose peace is an attribute of world government. This is the new frontier the UN is exploring in the Congo. 1993 Crosswinds (New Mexico) Jan. 18/1 For the contemporary artist, however, sampling is the new frontier, the only truly new musical form of the Nineties. b. U.S. Politics. In form New Frontier. A programme of social improvement advocated by John F. Kennedy, President from 1961 to 1963. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > American politics > [noun] > principles or policies > of specific politician or support for Jacksonism1824 Tylerism1844 Monroeism1856 Jeffersonianism1876 Rooseveltism1890 Crokerism1897 Wilsonism1920 Rooseveltism1932 McCarthyism1950 Goldwaterism1960 new frontier1960 Reaganism1966 Bushism1980 Clintonism1992 1960 J. F. Kennedy in N.Y. Times 16 July 1/8 The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. 1969 C. Booker Neophiliacs vii. 162 Kennedy's New Frontier America. 1973 R. Thomas If you can't be Good (1974) ii. 14 The doctoral thesis I had been researching when summoned to the New Frontier. 1993 Newsweek 11 Jan. 39/2 The besetting illusion of the New Deal and the New Frontier was that every problem had a solution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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