Word: hearths
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...from wolf packs and barbarian invaders. In 999, however, castles, like most other buildings in Europe, were made of timber, far from the granite bastions that litter today's imagined Middle Ages. The peasants, meanwhile, were relegated to their simple huts, where everyone -- including the animals -- slept around the hearth. Straw was scattered on the floors to collect scraps as well as human and animal waste. Housecleaning consisted of sweeping out the straw...
...authors seem unable to conceive of these women as true thinkers and artists, and instead approach their writing as though it were therapy for the women writers and, indeed, for all women. Pearlman and Henderson see the writers largely as domestic creatures, concerned primarily with matters of heart and hearth. They have broadened their definition of the domestic sphere to include the publishing houses and the university halls, but it is ultimately a sphere of containment...
BABY SITTER. In movies as in life, this is the most traditional woman's role: hearth stirrer, home saver, raising her children and supporting her man. It ! was an emblem, we now realize, of her superiority. Modern man knows that modern woman can do the old, cool-guy stuff -- run a tractor, beat him at poker, light a cigarette in a high wind -- but that he can't manage, so artfully or efficiently, what women have done since the cave days. So there's nothing inherently retrograde about Dying Young, in which Julia Roberts performs bedside therapy on ailing Campbell...
...from marriage in a destructive way. Pope Pius XII, who denounced artificial insemination even from husband to wife, declared, "To reduce the cohabitation of married persons and the conjugal act to a mere organic function for the transmission of the germ of life would be to convert the domestic hearth, sanctuary of the family, into nothing more than a biological laboratory." When Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in England in July 1978, alarmists warned of a brave new world in which government would control the production of children...
...buildings and commercial bustle were great pleasures. Today Duany and Plater- Zyberk, Calthorpe and their allies are proposing to go all the way, to build wholly new towns and cities the way our ancestors did. If the 1990s really lives up to its wishful early line -- a return to hearth and home, a redoubled environmental concern, humbler, simpler -- then the new decade should be ripe for the oldfangled new towns to proliferate, to become the American way of growth. Or so, anyway, it is no longer madness to hope...