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In 1964 an American girl of thirteen or fourteen might be given a wooden chest, and everybody in the room understood what it meant. From that day she…
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In 1974 an American woman's hair was set, which is a different thing from styled. It was wetted, wound onto brush rollers held against the scalp with long…
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In 1974 a great many American houses still had one in front of the sink, inside the back door and beside the bed: a thick oval mat braided…
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In 1974 every American school had a cardboard box in the office containing a community's unclaimed property, and it was never organised, because nobody's job included organising it.…
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In 1974 an American charity thrift shop was a volunteer-staffed room with rails of unsorted clothing, a shelf of household objects at a few cents each, a curtain…
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In 1964 an American man owned a hat, knew its size in eighths of an inch, set the brim himself every morning, took it off the moment he…