Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reporting on the U.S. of the early 1830s as seen through his shrewd Gallic eyes, Alexis de Tocqueville observed that Americans tended in their attitude toward the arts to "put the real in place of the ideal." That has always been true of the interior of the White House. First occupied in 1800, when the nation was still in its raw infancy, when Washington, D.C., was a muddy village with a few thousand inhabitants, the White House has, through the changing decades, served its practical functions as residence and office for the President. What was neglected was the ideal...
Shrapnel & Atrocities. Perhaps most remarkable about the Boer War was its length: for nearly three years the might of the British Empire was fought off by a sprinkling of fiercely independent Dutch settlers in the interior of South Africa. The conflict saw history's last cavalry charge with lance and saber, and the first wide-scale use of shrapnel, barbed wire, trenches, machine guns. Resembling the American Civil War in fact as well as in fiction-formula, the Boer War found the most daring soldiers and the most skillful generals on the losing side, while the victors...
...next year Douglas married Mercedes Hester Davidson, divorced wife of a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Mercedes had been his research assistant, even attended auto mechanics school to learn how to change tires and spark plugs on their faraway trips. But for all of that, something was amiss. Two weeks ago, Mercedes won an uncontested divorce on grounds of cruelty (TIME, Aug. 9). Five days later, Bill Douglas, 64, and Joan Martin, 23, were married; the following day, Mercedes married her third husband, Washington Lawyer Robert B. Eichholz...
...order to control them better. During the Indo-China war, thousands of men worked openly for the French, but cases of women collaborators were rare. Today women control much of South Viet Nam's wealth, and in her home a wife is called noi tuong, or "general of the interior." Matriarchal strength is compounded by the traditional Vietnamese view of the family as monolithic and united against all outsiders, but in Mme. Nhu's case, her family by marriage takes precedence over her own blood. She has fallen out with her father, mother and sister. It is in Diem...
Appetite for Everything. All cities with old slum dwellings have a year-round lead poisoning problem. Interior paints used to contain a great deal of the metal; most exterior paints still contain some, but far less than formerly. Crawlers and toddlers in the chew-everything age nibble porch rails and windowsills, chew flakes of old paint or chips of painted plaster and take the lead into their systems, where it is deposited, much like calcium, in the bones. A little lead produces no symptoms and usually no damage. But it takes only a little more to bring on symptoms that...