Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From time immemorial-or at least since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790-the head of household has been identified for every house, hovel, plantation, apartment, coop, condominium, igloo and wigwam to which an intrepid census taker could wend...
...With rare exceptions, he was a he who brought home the bacon, the caviar or the grits. His income, his education, the number of his progeny, his occupation were pondered by sociologists, planners, politicians and merchants. No matter how henpecked, he was undeniably the head of household in the Census Bureau statistics...
...more. In recent years, census takers have rung doorbells and had their own bells rung by what they found inside. In 1% of the households, male and female partners are not married. Even when they are, very often both work. Sometimes she earns more than he. So who is the family head? Ask and you sometimes hear "he," sometimes "she," but most often "neither...
...belonged to the young," writes Davidson, "we had thought life was free and would never run out. We were certain we belonged to a generation that was special. We did not need or care about history because we had sprung from nowhere." Such were the pretensions of what the Census Bureau now refers to as merely a "demographic bulge...
...imposition of a six-day work week, capped by mandatory political indoctrination on Sundays. Small family farm plots were merged into large communes. Peasants, who never before had paid taxes, suddenly found themselves forced to turn over 8% to 30% of their rice crop to state warehouses. A census was taken of barnyard stocks, and peasants were warned that they could not eat any chicken-even those dying of natural causes-without permission from a local Communist cadre...