New Frontier

noun

1. the principles and policies of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party under the leadership of President John F. Kennedy.

New Frontier

1. A slogan used by President John F. Kennedy to describe his goals and policies. Kennedy maintained that, like the Americans of the frontier in the nineteenth century, Americans of the twentieth century had to rise to new challenges, such as achieving equality of opportunity for all.

Word History and Origins

Origin of New Frontier¹

As a political catchphrase, apparently first used by Henry Wallace in a book of the same title (1934)

Example Sentences

I also listened to Donald Fagen’s “New Frontier,” which has pristine production values, and found the clarity and balance of the speakers to be quite good.

From Popular-Science

Napster deserves credit not just for being the first, but for revolutionizing a new frontier in music consumption.

From The Daily Beast

Christine Pelisek on the new frontier in disaster management.

From The Daily Beast

Winston Ross goes to the culture war's new frontier: Fargo, North Dakota.

From The Daily Beast

But video and online gaming is, if not a new frontier, certainly a vast one.

From The Daily Beast

Fred Bauer puts forward "Restoration and Renewal" as one possible formulation: The New Frontier.

From The Daily Beast

The aspect of the town suggests the activity of a new frontier place where everybody is busy.

From Project Gutenberg

Still later they removed to a new frontier, coming to Walla Walla county, Washington in 1868, and here both passed away.

From Project Gutenberg

When the new frontier was laid down at the conclusion of the late war, the River Zem was Montenegro's limit.

From Project Gutenberg

All German troops at present in territories east of the new frontier shall return as soon as the Allies deem wise.

From Project Gutenberg

Granny and Gramps were living proof that people could dare to cross a new frontier and live.

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