Word: exurban
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...devoted to writing, but Cheever happily spends afternoons doing an exurban homeowner's chores and errands for his busy wife, who teaches English literature three days a week at nearby Briardiff College. Every Sunday he attends 8 a.m. Communion at All Saints Episcopal Church. He delights in dancing, enjoys his liquor with zest. His courtesy is immaculate, but in speech he is elliptical to the point of exasperation, with a tendency to finish only one in four of his sentences...
...responsibility, hates meetings and committees and expects the 13 Singer vice presidents to whom he freely delegates authority to make quick and clear decisions. A onetime lawyer (Columbia '39) who was twice wounded in World War II, Kircher lives with his family in an unpretentious ranch house in exurban New Jersey, where he keeps his stable...
...average Joe Blow Negro. But as the cats say in my area, I'm out there wailing for us all." Now, adhering to the script of his Broadway and Hollywood hit, A Raisin in the Sun, Miami-born Poitier has moved into a previously all-white exurban area of New York's Westchester County. Ensconced with his wife and four daughters in a newly purchased twelve-room Tudor house in Mount Pleasant, Poitier was enjoying a warm reception from virtually all of his neighbors...
Last week Founder Rayburn faced a stern denunciation of Young Life. Its authors: five of the leading Protestant ministers* in exurban New Canaan, Conn, (pop. 11,200). Over their names appeared a public statement warning parents against Young Life...
...accepting his plight most resignedly. Trujillo thought that Peron seemed too much of a showpiece living in his Ciudad Trujillo hotel; the weary Argentine obligingly donned his red baseball cap, gathered his blonde secretary, poodles, a motorcycle and a motor scooter and headed for a country villa. For his exurban retreat, he chose a soft-blue-and-white stucco house seven miles east of the capital, facing out over the Caribbean. As explanation of the move, he said that he was "bothered" by the noisy Cuban exiles who invaded his hotel when Batista arrived...