Word: vacuums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toasting their feet on an electric footwarmer. So well paid are their jobs at the nearby Matsushita Electric Co. radio plant-as a foreman, Seiji makes $61.12 a month, plus a bonus of 6½ months' pay last year-that they also own a refrigerator, transistor radio, vacuum cleaner, electric iron and washer. If the expectant Kumiko presents him with a son next month, Seiji even talks confidently of sending the boy to a university. "What more could I want?" Seiji ruminates contentedly-and answers himself: "I can't think of anything." The contentment of Seiji Hayakawa...
...Japanese women from the need to get up an hour earlier than their husbands - and from the terrible mother-in-law's verdict, "She can't even cook rice," which once was enough to send a Japanese bride back to her parents in disgrace. Matsushita's vacuum-cleaner ad that promises women "freedom from one phase of household drudgery," introduces a notion that, though old hat in the West, marks a revolution in the status of Japanese women...
...done." He recognizes confusedly that "in England, the ending of the war had come like waking from a bad dream; in defeated Germany, as the signal for deeper levels of nightmare." Society had been fragmented into "men living desperately incommunicado like men rendered voiceless by an intervening vacuum." In their nightmare, "these suffering people" saw devils and named them "Jews, Communists, Capitalists, Catholics, Cabbalists...
...collapse of old European empires, said the Governor, has left a "most political vacuum," to fill which communism "offers a cruel design for world order." Some grand design is needed for the individual nation-state is no longer able to "defend its freedom, to fulfill the aspirations of its own people from within its own borders or through its own resources...
Detroit's Archives of American Art is part museum, part scrapbook and part vacuum cleaner. Since it was founded seven years ago, its staff has scoured the U.S. for material on U.S. artists, collectors, critics and dealers. On the theory that what may seem trivial today could be important tomorrow, the Archives will accept or buy just about anything. It has more than a million original and microfilmed items, among them Benjamin West's wine bills, poems written by Albert Ryder, a Lyonel Feininger sketchbook, the notes and papers of Walt Kuhn. Last week it announced an offbeat...