Word: exurbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself aching for an earplug. O'Hara continues to describe the nuances of social habit with rare authority in a society in which social flux continuously alters the symbols of prestige. But the snobbism of the right prep school, the right club, the right street in the right exurb becomes so intrusive that Terrace often reads like a gigantic menu...
...film collapses, during one of the least convincing murder trials ever filmed, when it tries to mop up the whole mess by blaming it on the town's callousness and nasty-minded curiosity. Peyton Place is not nasty at all; in glowing CinemaScope, it looks like the exurb where good commuters go when they...
...sociological fiction and fictional sociology on suburb and exurb, remarkably little has been written about the country club. The Charley Grays may occasionally get high there beyond the point of no return, or men in grey flannel suits may make unconvincing passes at fellow members' wives, but no one ever did a full-dress, inside-the-country-club story-until that Boswell of the American upper middle class, John P. Marquand, took on the task. Life at Happy Knoll (a series of sketches that first appeared in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED) is deftly ironic social comedy, as slight as the shorts...