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From time immemorial-or at least since the first U.S. census was taken in 1790-the head of household has been identified for every house, hovel, plantation, apartment, coop, condominium, igloo and wigwam to which an intrepid census taker could wend...
...belonged to the young," writes Davidson, "we had thought life was free and would never run out. We were certain we belonged to a generation that was special. We did not need or care about history because we had sprung from nowhere." Such were the pretensions of what the Census Bureau now refers to as merely a "demographic bulge...
...imposition of a six-day work week, capped by mandatory political indoctrination on Sundays. Small family farm plots were merged into large communes. Peasants, who never before had paid taxes, suddenly found themselves forced to turn over 8% to 30% of their rice crop to state warehouses. A census was taken of barnyard stocks, and peasants were warned that they could not eat any chicken-even those dying of natural causes-without permission from a local Communist cadre...
...statecraft. This constant juxtaposition of power and the powerless begins as an easy irony but slowly swells toward a cosmic pathos. While Mussolini strutted like a deranged buffoon, "Rome took on the appearance of certain Indian metropolises where only the vultures get enough to eat and there is no census of the living and the dead...
...population increase resulting from the inclusion of Harvard students in the census for the first time may help Cambridge to receive more financial aid from the state, Goverman added...