December 1953 Issue [After hours] Borax, pig-ears, and modernism Download PDF Adjust Share by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century Chicago Consumers' preferences House furnishings industry and trade Illinois Merchandising Sears Roebuck (Chicago, Ill: Department store) United States More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share