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Word: irreality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
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...years since World War II millions of Americans have moved into thousands of new communities that have sprung full-furbished from an architect's brain. And the big housing developments -alternatively praised as the first fruits of social engineering, and damned as the most fantastically irreal estate since Prince Potemkin's villages-have had a drastic effect on the American way of life. But who can actually say what the effect has been? Have they created a split-level personality? Is the American male developing a barbecue pituitary or a carport stoop? Is his wife, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 14, 1957 | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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