Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lately, the non-Wasps have pursued them even there. A few years ago, Grosse Pointe, a Wasp suburb of Detroit, was notorious for rating prospective homeowners by a point system based on personal characteristics; Jews, Italians and "swarthy" persons almost invariably got so few points that they could not buy houses. Now all that has been abandoned, and Grosse Pointe has many Roman Catholic and Jewish residents. Downtown private clubs remain bastions of Wasp exclusiveness, but doors are opening. One recent example: Jews gained admission to the Kansas City Club in Kansas City, Mo., after an uproar over exclusionary policies...
...extraordinarily fine relationship." Late this year, the Stangs divorced, and Ullman-and her daughter Linn-moved into the $100,000 house Bergman recently built on Sheep Island, scene of The Shame. On occasion, they can also be spied upon in their town house in Stockholm's expensive residential suburb, Deer Garden. Guarding his privacy with zeal, Bergman has only once publicly ventured an opinion about the woman who has played a major role in his last three films-and in his life. "As in photography, Liv is a complete commentary unto herself," he maintains. "Besides I am in love...
Army hospital in the Tokyo suburb of Oji, for instance, a scandal recently swirled up over the fact that recuperating G.I. patients had been seen slipping out of their wards to seek the companionship of the local bar girls. It was hardly a major issue, but a Tokyo paper trumpeted the story with a headline that shrieked: PROSTITUTES DESCEND ON OJI; PUBLIC MORALE ENDANGERED...
...suburbs do not stand alone," says the report. "They are an integral part of the great metropolitan areas where two out of three Americans already live. Help to the troubled central city and the suburb must move in parallel. Without the improvement of both, all will suffer...
Father Mazzi was for 14 years pastor of the church of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in the drab, working-class Florentine suburb of Isolotto. On the theory that conventional methods would have no impact on his parishioners, most of whom regularly vote Communist or Socialist, Mazzi shucked his cassock and collar for the jacket and high-necked sweater of the Italian workman...