Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I hear about euthanasia and Jack Kevorkian, sirens go off in my mind. Maybe I'm working with an old paradigm, like Munich, but I can't help it. I think of the case of Franz Stangl, a perfectly conventional Vienna policeman and good citizen who after the Anschluss became a security officer at hospitals for the aged, infirm and imbecilic, and helped--humanely at first, so they said--to ease the very worst cases, the utterly hopeless, the deformed and subhuman, toward a death that all reasonable people at the time thought would be the only decent thing...
...envision a society that in the name of efficiency and convenience (the best thing for everyone, really, under the circumstances) practiced Kevorkianism as a matter of routine in every community? Time for the ice floe, Pop. Such is the little black Pandora's box that popped open in my mind as I watched 60 Minutes...
...literally awakened by something preying on my mind. I sat bolt upright in bed and said, "We never found out what happened to those vanished pigeons!" My wife stirred. She'd heard me use that tone of voice before at around that hour in the morning, usually to say something like "Did we forget to drain the pipes...
...more. Less than two months after Mubarak's visit, the Turks got so mad at the Italians that everyone seemed to forget what the beef with the Syrians had been about. When I tried to remember, what came to mind instead was reading at around the same time about a crisis between Iran and Afghanistan--two countries that you'd think might be bound together by a shared affection for arresting women who show their faces in public. I couldn't remember reading about anybody going to defuse it. Did that mean it was still fused...
...those years, the American housing industry was not so much an industry as a loose affiliation of local builders, any one of whom completed an average of four houses a year. What Levitt had in mind was 30 to 40 a day. Before the war, Levitt and his brother Alfred had built a few houses on land their father owned in Manhasset, N.Y. And in 1941 the Levitts won a government contract to provide 2,350 housing units for defense workers in Norfolk, Va. Once the fighting ended, they brought the lessons of that experience to 1,000 acres...