Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...image and could be corrected without any fundamental changes in structure. One basic difficulty, he insists, is that Boston newspapers are geared to a suburban readership. Their aim is to flatter the suburbanite, and all too often this flattery becomes a destructive comparison of the city with the suburb; criticism of the city becomes a way of justifying the suburbanite's flight from Boston...
...installing its first modern sewer system. New hotels and apartment houses are sprouting like desert flowers; three new hotels worth $10 million will soon be started in Tripoli alone. A small upper-middle class has grown enormously wealthy, built hundreds of lavish villas in the fashion able Tripoli suburb of Georgimpopoli...
...such a confident contortionist. His double-spiraled mandala is the Hindu symbol of totality embedded in a glass marble, and his vast pretension is to spin out this bauble to encompass all human life in the person of its owner-an Australian half-wit half-man living in a suburb of Sydney...
...Spanish-mosstroopers of Southern decadence ride again in New South Wales. White's celebrated style, in its sidelong, suggestive, subjunctive way, might nudge a reader to the conclusion that this is like early Capote or Tennessee Williams. And, somehow, White has contrived to convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions are in short supply Down Under, but White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done...
...Sixteen in Webster Groves," a report on the American 16-year-old based on a University of Chicago study of the teen-age species in a St. Louis suburb...