Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment house is a postwar phenomenon in Japan, and the old country will never be the same. During the war 4,000,000 families saw their delicate paper houses go up in smoke, and the ramshackle wooden shacks that the government hastily threw together afterward have been destroyed, at the rate of 30,000 a year, by fire and typhoon. To take care of the millions of homeless, the government picked a go-getting, 72-year-old banker named Hisaakira Kano, a former viscount. Kano's philosophy was simple but radical: "With too many people and too little land...
...month in rent. In construction is a twelve-story building for the rich (monthly rent: up to $350), which will have a roof garden, Turkish baths, a nightclub, bowling alley and a parking lot for 250 automobiles. For the middle class there are the geta-baki ("houses wearing wooden shoes"), which stand on stilts and have shops underneath. But whether for the rich or the poor, each apartment house has become not only a place to live, but also a new way of life...
...fetch her back. Off he bicycles into the jungle, trying to feel like a modern conqueror but uneasy at the thought of the reception he may get from the savage backwoodsmen-an uneasiness that deepens when he arrives in the middle of a football match played with a wooden ball and 22 throwing-spears...
...panoply and suspense of the conclave, it is a stark and lonely time for the cardinals themselves. They are imprisoned in an atmosphere of Renaissance marble contrasting with improvised wooden partitions, inhibited in their talks with each other and especially with their accompanying conclavists (with whom they are forbidden to discuss the balloting). Even their meals, in a temporary refectory set up amid Pintoricchio frescoes in the Borgia apartments, offer little comfort. Cracked one Vaticaner when he heard that the cardinals' cooks would be six sisters from the Order of Santa Marta: "That alone will be a great encouragement...
...Montmartre, cut through the Porte de Clignancourt and onto the plain of Saint-Ouen, where the army occasionally held maneuvers. Here the evicted peddlers settled down, offered their trinkets for sale to passersby. When the army seemed not to object, they put up awnings over their merchandise, built flimsy wooden booths. They sold everything from ormolu clocks to cracked washbasins, and one of their most popular items was a cheap, "hard" mattress, usually filled with fleas. Thus, back in the 1890s, the famed Paris Flea Market began...