Nancy Cott's study of marriage as a public institution, "Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation", is full of reminders of how until very recently the law subjugated women to their husbands.
And here is a basic question: If things were so good until very recently, how did they become so bad so fast?
Or at least according to Mark Twain, who told Howells, "That's the best drunk scene — because the truest — that I ever read.... How very drunk, and how recently drunk, and how altogether admirably drunk you must have been to enable you to contrive that masterpiece!" One problem: Where's the audiobook, Audible.com?
(My father served in the Pacific, with the 3rd Marine Division, so I've looked up the Solomon Islands, where Guadalcanal is, on a map; still, it didn't register until recently how very close they are to Australia).
I didn't realize until very recently how difficult it must have been for my own mother at times to see these relationships of mine blossoming.
"Most scientists studying human evolution focus only on our hunter-gatherer way of life 10,000 years ago, but we show that, albeit interesting, this will not give you a complete picture of the story — we also need to focus on how people were living until very recently, and probably even today," Courtiol added.
Or how dirty the alleys were until very recently, when we started raising public awareness".
But both reports also suggest that the bishops and religious orders, who supply one-third of the nations priests and many of which also cooperated with the John Jay survey, were unaware of how extensive the problem was until very recently.
Zone two is the really big issue, and one in which a subcontractor dropped the ball, and then Tesla only realized how badly it had been dropped very recently.
But until very recently, we didn't know how to combine the right data sets and see crucial patterns.
