Word: clothe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crouter, in turn, was irritated by the Japanese attitude toward women. "Feudal," she wrote, after a guard said that American women opened and shut doors too aggressively, instead of gently like Japanese women. In 1943 the Japanese placed Lysol-soaked cloths in boxes outside the huts and announced that any prisoners who failed to wipe their feet on the cloth would be beaten. Wrote Crouter: "I am rather confused over Japanese politeness and tea ceremony in comparison with the Sergeant offering to slap any woman who wouldn't dip her feet into the door box. Like us, their nature...
...silly war they said, and then they wrote some more. They dug up the records of the past, searching for new meanings where the scholars said there were none to be found. Paul Sills stumbled upon them though, buried in childhood copies of Grimm's Fairy Tales and cloth-bound editions of Aesop's Fables, and he brought them to life in a new kind of show that he called Story Theatre...
Paragon Books: $8.95 paper, $17.95 cloth...
Inside the thicket stood two rows of dasoyils, the dome-shaped folding huts used by wandering Ogaden herdsmen. There were two shops stocked with canned goods, boxes of spaghetti and bolts of cloth, a café where men sat drinking cups of steaming spiced tea laced with sour camel milk, a stall where a cobbler took orders for made-to-measure goatskin sandals. Camels groaned in protest as their owners loaded them up with sacks of rice, flour and sugar; the sounds blended unevenly with the bleat of goats and sheep grazing on the scrubby vegetation of a nearby field...
...shoulder, was crisscrossed by marks resulting from sitting too near a wood-burning stove. His advice: "Stay a reasonable distance away. If the heat is intense enough to cause discomfort, that is too close." He further warns that ordinary apparel offers little protection; the heat will penetrate through cloth...