It may be that the authors of yesteryear appreciated this fact when they wrote some of the great works of the 20th century.
"Perhaps the origin of straight-line architecture in America," mused American Builder in 1930, and in 1952, Lewis Mumford called it "the most successful" of the four facades, even though he thought that Thomas Hastings had "little appreciated this fact".
To fully appreciate this fact required revisiting the collection in slide-show form, because seen in a live runway presentation, it was bogged down under the inevitably lugubrious styling and became a blur.
Once one appreciates this fact, and that the apex of the baby boom was 1961, it should be no surprise that the peak year of inflation-adjusted home prices was 2006, after 15 years of increasing demand.The average age at which Americans make their largest home sale is 60.
Failure to appreciate this fact lies at the root of many of the most common critiques of Vasubandhu's argument, both traditional and modern.
