Word: suburb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have also been harassed by those white students who seem determined not to adjust to the new situation. Parents in Mississippi's Washington County have sent their children into class with portable tape recorders to gather evidence against black teachers they consider incompetent. White students in Greer, a suburb of Greenville, S.C., openly mimic the accent of a black English teacher...
...Harvard English Professor Joel Porte, for example, sold his car four years ago, and hasn't "even been tempted" to own one since. Instead, Porte, 36, and his wife Ilana, 31, get by on ordinary $35 three-speed English bicycles; he makes the trip from Belmont, a Boston suburb, to the Cambridge campus in 17 minutes flat. Last week, just before her first baby was due, Mrs. Porte was still running errands by bike...
...squad-car cops by slowing the rapid rotation of police assignments. He hopes that citizens will get to know the cops for a change, and even support them. That idea is being carried out most fully in smaller cities, which are experimenting with "team deployment." In the new Denver suburb of Lakewood, for instance, all cops now look like anti-cops. Called "agents," most of them have college degrees and all wear blazers; they leave their nightsticks in their patrol cars, and will soon operate in neighborhood squads virtually without orders from headquarters. Similar teams in Syracuse introduce themselves...
With that many Americans in the suburbs, the myth has shattered in diversity. Suburbia is something more than the stereotype of buttoned-down Wasp commuters and wives who slurp "tee many martoonis" at the country club. "Gary is as much a suburb of Chicago as Evanston," says Political Analyst Richard Scammon. The suburbs have become increasingly heterogeneous with the influx of blue-collar workers who now have middle-class incomes and attitudes. As Scammon puts it: "Workers now aren't concerned about Taft-Hartley; they're concerned about crabgrass." Along with crabgrass, ironically, come many of the problems...
...Chicago suburb of Midlothian is promoting itself as "the village of Lighted Flags," installing illuminated flagpoles (protocol requires lights at night if the flag is to be flown) so that the Stars and Stripes can fly 24 hours a day. Thirty such poles are now in place. Says Midlothian President Harry Raday: "I don't think it's political. It's the simple fact that the majority of people in the U.S. are pretty damned proud to be here. And they're tired of seeing pictures of people with beards hanging down to their damned navels with love beads...