Word: doors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protestors have simply moved off Fifth Avenue and onto their neighbors' porches, where they are making their appeal in a much quieter, but (they hope) more effective manner. They are going door-to-door to seek out and organize latent and unarticulated opposition...
Though Reagan denies that he is seeking the nomination, he is not about to issue a Shermanesque statement. "If the Republican Party comes beating at my door, I wouldn't say, 'Get lost, fellows,' " he said last week. "But that isn't going to happen...
...other people, is hardly the kind of enclave that requires constitutional defense to protect 'the privacies of life.' The short though regular journey from mailbox to trash can is an acceptable burden, at least so far as the Constitution is concerned. And the bells at the door and on the telephone, though their ring is a more imperious nuisance than the mailman's tidings," constitute merely "peripheral assaults...
...haphazard is Shelburne's general store, a zany montage of barbershop, country doctor's office, dentist's cubicle, post office and taproom whose shelves are laden with jars of candy and patent nostrums. A faint smell of peppermint is always in the air, and outside the door hangs a hand-painted sign: "Gone fishing be back Monday mebbe." The schoolhouse combines a dunce cap made from an 1868 newspaper with wall drawings made by Lincoln-era schoolchildren and period mottoes written on the blackboard: "People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages" and "Nothing...
...middle-class system chooses not to ignore the Sawneys. Next door live the Jacksons, the clean little family who have just arrived in the lower middle class and who are always irritating the Sawneys. The bobbies are always poking around, and the building inspector keeps checking up on the march of decay that is sweeping over the Sawney's house. The Sawneys grunt, roll over, and start to rebel. In a superb gesture of contempt, old Sailor Sawney, the clan's patriarch, pisses in the Jackson's geranium pot. Before they know it, the police, the neighbors, the Welfare State...