Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shabbily dressed invaders were not the young rock freaks who had recently occupied the house next door on Arrowhead Drive in Collinsville, Ill., a blue-collar suburb of St. Louis. Rather, they were agents of the federal Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement (DALE), backed up by perhaps a dozen policemen. As the Giglottos tell it, the raiders two weeks ago ransacked the house and loosed a fusillade of obscenities that they threatened to follow with bullets. They forced the couple to lie on the bed face down and handcuffed them. The leader of the group held a cocked revolver...
...therapists who now run clinics on their own. Other respected programs are operated by professionals with no tie to Masters and Johnson, though most use some of the techniques devised by the St. Louis experts. For instance, at Forest Hospital, a private psychiatric institution in the Chicago suburb of Des Plaines, a psychiatrist and a gynecologist treat patients with a combination of the St. Louis method and psychoanalytic therapy...
...less goes on in the Cheever villages of The World of Apples. His characters are indelibly New Englanders: reserved, though-tridden, hoping to act both well and right. They are much easier to get a handle on than the passionately self-indulgent and upwardly-mobile citizens of my fair suburb. And. in Cheever, there is still an air of sanctity to the towns themselves: his people still cherish the idea of community, even if all the familiar points of reference, the town halls and the churches, are flying off in pinwheel motion. Cheever is still writing about all the problems...
...optimistic by disease," says one colleague. But the Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe has reason to be optimistic. He is a survivor of a cataclysm next to which the problems of his Jesuits must instantly pale. As rector of a Jesuit novitiate in wartime Japan, he was in Nagatsuka, a suburb of Hiroshima, on Aug. 6, 1945, when the atomic bomb struck. "Arrupe," says a Jesuit associate, "has seen the Apocalypse...
...minutes later, in a luggage shop in downtown Detroit, the owner and his clerk were discovered neatly trussed and executed, apparently in a robbery. A little after that, a prominent black psychiatrist was found dead in the trunk of his car. And still later that evening, police in the suburb of Roseville came across the bodies of a pair of young lovers in a car, victims of a murder-suicide...