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, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends, that restless,... Proceedings [of The] Annual Business Meeting - Страница 75написао/ла State Historical Society of Wisconsin - 1894Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| David Knights, Darren McCabe - 2003 - 222 страница
...guru narratives appeal to and seek to constitute: That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness, that practical, inventive turn...powerful to effect great ends, that restless, nervous energy, that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and within that buoyancy and exuberance... | |
| Peter C. Rollins - 2003 - 708 страница
...times — most typified what Frederick Jackson Turner had described as the essential American spirit: "That practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to...powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil." The changing roles of women were... | |
| Rashna B. Singh - 2004 - 390 страница
...American characteristics and intellectual traits: That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn...powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy, that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance... | |
| Michael Broyles - 2008 - 397 страница
...the act of settlement itself. Along that line American character was forged. In Turner's own words: grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic...powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance... | |
| Martha A. Sandweiss - 2002 - 426 страница
...distinctively American character: "that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness, that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients, that masterful Photography and the American Future 305 grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful... | |
| James Reardon-Anderson - 2005 - 326 страница
...counterparts in the eastern United States and Europe: that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn...powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance... | |
| Dan Moos - 2005 - 280 страница
...soldiers in Cuba). Specifically, he found that the frontier produced "coarseness and strength . . . that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in...powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism" ("Significance" 59). The strenuous life of Roosevelt found its... | |
| Yardena Rand - 2005 - 220 страница
...particular character traits: ...that coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness; that practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find...expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism. This is a familiar evocation, but not one... | |
| James Gilbert - 2005 - 281 страница
...metaphor of the frontier as America's Mediterranean Sea, demanding of its explorers and colonists a "practical, inventive turn of mind quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things" was the force he identified that energized individuals and self-reliance. To Turner, it was the repetitive... | |
| Albert Borgmann - 2010 - 257 страница
...American intellect owes its striking characteristics. That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn...powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and for evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance... | |
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