Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is confusion over the precise sequence of events, but before order was restored Jackson was dead. So were Guards DeLeon, Paul Krasenes and Jere Graham, and two inmates, John Lynn and Ronald Kane. The throats of all five had been slashed with a razor blade imbedded in a toothbrush handle, and two of the guards had been shot. Four of the bodies were piled into Jackson's cell, perhaps saving the life of a wounded guard who was covered by the corpses. Jackson and another prisoner had dashed from the Adjustment Center, sprinted across an open courtyard toward...
...hair was always neatly combed, or alternatively, as bristly as a fresh toothbrush. He kept his elbows off the table at meals, his speech was a crisp cadence of "yes, sir" or "no, ma'am," and on occasion he even helped old ladies across the street. He was, in short, the ideal son for many a parent: a cadet turned out by one of the nation's once flourishing military schools. Today, though, many of the academies are battling for survival. They have been ambushed, they say, by the recession, the permissiveness of modern parents, and public irascibility...
Indomitable travelers will find positive virtues, however. Tipping, for instance, is strictly forbidden. Shopping may on occasion be rewarding: a few authentic antiques can be turned up and some handicraft items are excellent. Personal honesty is impressively high: travelers find it almost impossible to throw even an exhausted toothbrush away without having a dutiful chambermaid pursue them to return it. Some personal relations, in fact, offer genuine pleasures. "Courtesy and politeness," says Roderick, "will get you treated well almost everywhere in China today...
...farm family in the Italian Tyrol. Mary's first memory of her Tattile, as her foster parents called Pound, is of a pair of shiny shoes she was not allowed to touch. On another visit, alarmed at her farm-girl fingernails and unbrushed teeth, Tattile bought her a toothbrush and personally gave her a manicure. Mamile was more distant, "an incomprehensible entity with a grudge . . . as though I were permanently doing her wrong...
...with the new is part of the daily American experience. For better or for worse, the rest of the world learns what is in store for it by observing what happens in the United States: whether it be the latest scientific discoveries in space and medicine or the electric toothbrush in the bathroom; pop art or LSD; air conditioning or air pollution; old-age problems or juvenile delinquency...