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Powell read avidly, acting out his favorite Civil War battles or painting posters of them that are still stored in the family attic. "His imagination was one of his best friends," says his mother June, 58. It pretty well had to be. Recalls a boyhood chum, Lee Guerry: "Mostly we went to a movie, got a hamburger and then rode around in our cars watching other people ride around." The outside world intruded when the schools were ordered integrated in 1970. Mrs. Powell, a teacher for 30 years, was one of the few whites to stay in the public school...
...problem arises at the outset, when Sennett defines public life in a private, idiosyncratic and almost arbitrary way. Rather than updating the classical idea of res publica he exhumes from the attic (a notion of private citizens redefining themselves by subordinating their individual interests to the greater good of the community) Sennett merely fabricates a new definition. Public life "flowers" in Sennett's world when the proper "balance" is found between the public and private realms. The material for these conditions existed, according to Sennett, in 18th century London where citizens created through women's elaborate wigs, men's formal...
...major target for saving natural gas and oil will be home insulation. "Your home is your castle," runs one current Washington quip, "but your attic belongs to the Government." At present, as much as 40% of house heat escapes through poorly fitting windows, too thin walls and faulty flues. Schlesinger plans a mandatory program that will force homeowners to insulate whether they want to or not. Enforcement will be through state commissions and local utilities. One proposal: order public utilities to insulate homes and spread out the cost through higher billing to all customers. For added energy saving in homes...
...just provincial; it was provinciality itself. He was born in Ostend, the Belgian seaport and watering place, in 1860. His parents ran a little junk shop (it also sold masks for the yearly Ostend Carnival), and Ensor's childhood was obsessed by "our dark and frightening attic, full of horrible spiders, curios, seashells, plants and animals from distant seas, beautiful chinaware, rust and blood-colored effects, red and white coral, monkeys, turtles, dried mermaids and stuffed Chinamen." Between the immense stolidity of its bourgeois life and the thinness of its cultural milieu, Ostend in the late 19th century must...
Brigade of Bigots. Certainly, Fred Cowan showed disturbing similarities to Kiritsis. Both were lifelong losers. The balding Cowan was unable to make friendships with girls, contented himself instead with gun collecting and muscle building. Cowan's attic bedroom was jammed with rifles, pistols, bayonets, hand grenades and a collection of Nazi memorabilia. The muscle-bound six-footer had his arms tattooed with iron crosses and Nazi eagles. He joined the National States Rights Party, a Georgia-based brigade of bigots (see box following page). "There is nothing lower than blacks and Jews unless it's the police...