Word: patches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March for Causes. For better or for worse, Suburbia in the 1960s is the U.S.'s grassroots. In Suburbia live one-third of the nation, roughly 60 million people who represent every patch of democracy's hand-stitched quilt, every economic layer, every laboring and professional pursuit in the country. Suburbia is the nation's broadening young middle class, staking out its claim across the landscape, prospecting on a trial-and-error basis for the good way of life for itself and for the children that it produces with such rapidity. It is, as Social Scientist...
Under a searing sun, India's peasant plods endlessly behind his scrawny bullocks, scratching at the badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from...
...Mark, from his Hannibal, Mo. boyhood in the 1840s to the day of his death, exactly 50 years ago. Mark Twain's America followed the technique of Project 20's earlier and equally successful Meet Mr. Lincoln, used some 1,000 old photographs to bring back the patch of U.S. history Samuel Clemens helped needle into place. The pictures of the Old West, which attracted Twain as both reporter and prospector, were so penetratingly authentic that they easily got the drop on Hollywood, by comparison made farcical charades of Gunsmoke or Have Gun, Will Travel...
...cabin, fought off hordes of shrews,* are working on a greenhouse, have a hi-fi and TV set ready for use as soon as they can get a generator, and plan soon to build an outhouse. "When we first arrived here," says Bertha Donaldson, "there was just a patch of sunlight along the road. I asked myself, 'Do I really want to do this?' It took a while to adjust. If you don't go through that, you never make it. One thing we're never going to do is owe a cent...
...disconcertingly low-necked dresses, lacing their breasts so high that "a candlestick could be placed upon them." Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, pioneered a bare-to-the-waist style at court and also stopped the show at the palace by affecting a kind of girl-in-the-Hathaway-patch masking of one breast. Brazenly posing as a Madonna, she managed to have this piquant fashion immortalized by Painter Jean Fouquet...