Word: nextdoor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Josh W. Goldberg ’05 was excited to learn from his mother that none other than superstar rapper 50 Cent has moved in nextdoor to the Goldberg family home. Apparently, growing up rich and Jewish in tony Farmington, CT earns one much street cred. Declares Goldberg, “Yeah, we’ll see if ‘Fitty’ can party like it was my birthday.” For the record, Goldberg spent his last birthday heaving up sushi in the bathroom at Redline...
...generalize the collective consciousness of his readers. That this method works, however, suggests the declining individuality of modern Americans. Today’s average American reader watches the same television, reads the same novels and holds roughly the same outlook on the outside world as his suburban nextdoor neighbor. The reader empathizes with Ford’s characters because their fictional lives are as generic and homogeneous...