Word: household
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Papa was already the father of six, but overjoyed at the news. "Oh, my dear darling wife!" said he, "we haven't had one for ages. I love babies." Mamma, who had to run the household on 250 francs a month, said coldly: "So you're glad for me to bring another poor wretch into the world?" And Papa replied: "Of course I'm glad. It'll be a boy this time, he'll be born in 1900, beginning his life with a world's fair...
...presidential household also includes such diverse personalities as weather-beaten, 72-year-old Admiral Leahy, still technically the President's chief of staff, who gives Mr. Truman a daily 15-minute briefing on strategic problems; kindly, dignified William D. Hassett, a Roosevelt pensioner who handles general correspondence; and shrewd, soft-voiced David K. Niles, who advises on problems of minority groups, particularly Palestine...
...pretty good eye for all the detail of middle-class family life-the rich son, the poor son; the huffiness and stuffiness; the furnishings and food. But anything in The Hallams that isn't made of velvet or mahogany seems made of cardboard. Whenever the play abandons the household for the heart, whenever it exchanges class or clan reactions for personal emotions, it becomes feeble, trite or depressingly empty...
...world community of 1948 has a far more difficult news problem. Knowledge in the soth Century-while enormously greater than ever before-is very unevenly distributed. Specialists are not confined to the faculty of a university; they are found among members of the same household. Various publications address themselves to specialists: one speaks to the physicist, another to his wife (who can't do long division), another to their son who is absorbed in music, another to their neighbor whose consuming interest is politics. But all these individuals have to pull their weight in the same civilization...
Catastrophic Paradoxes. And yet, as 20th Century civilization reaches a climax, its own paradoxes grow catastrophic. The incomparable technological achievement is more & more dedicated to the task of destruction. Man's marvelous conquest of space has made total war a household experience and, over vast reaches of the world, the commonest of childhood memories. The more abundance increases, the more resentment becomes the characteristic new look on 20th Century faces. The more production multiplies, the more scarcities become endemic. The faster science gains on disease (which, ultimately, seems always to elude it), the more the human race dies...