Word: inhabitants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GENERAL ELECTRIC has built itself an enormous drum. The outer rim houses six theaters that revolve around a series of stages showing American home life (appliance division) at 20-year intervals from the turn of the century to the present. Moving, talking, life-size dummies inhabit the sets, which unintentionally plug nonprogress by going from a scene that recalls the cozy charms of the icebox, wood stove, gaslight era to one that all too plainly spells out the sterile joys and chilly conveniences of a modern electric home that has little taste and no charm...
...pages that a list of all their names and relationships, assembled by London's Time and Tide two novels back, occupied four full pages of type. Yet every one of them is as distinctively striated and plump with life as a mountain trout, and the society they inhabit is as compellingly real and elaborate as Proust's Paris...
...posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle-class English men and women who inhabit his fictional world. Not a great deal happens. Nick's brother-in-law, Robert Tolland, is killed while serving in France with the Field Security Service. "Would he have made a lot of money in his export house trading with the Far East? Might he have married Flavia Wisebite...
...dried smoked water buffalo, eggs fried with garlic, cucumbers, oranges and pineapple. After flying low across the embattled countryside with Kong Le, McCulloch wrote: "Laos is one of the loveliest lands on earth, and it is a bitter travesty that such a land and the gentle people who inhabit it should be caught up in a war they are ill prepared to fight but cannot be allowed to lose...
...Where in the hell are the good Samaritans who are supposed to inhabit our good land? Our people seem to have adopted an Oriental attitude when it comes to aiding their fellow man. This viewpoint is well known to men who served in the Orient and watched victims of accidents dying in the streets because an assister could become financially involved. It is time for the whole American public to get indignant about the criminal element that even invades our homes. Otherwise, we will end as a country without guts or Samaritans...