Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will replace century-old structures with a glistening, 18-story hotel-office building, new retail stores and office space. The Federal Government has earmarked $39 million for land purchases and clearance. Out of the city funds will come $7,000,000 for parking facilities (3,200 autos) to lure suburban shoppers. Says Lee, whose coup inspired envious comment in other Connecticut cities: "We are reversing the trend. In five years families will be moving into the city instead of out to the suburbs...
...vote of 6 to 1 one day last November, the school board in suburban New Hyde Park, L.I. (pop. 10.500) passed what seemed to be a most innocuous proposal: to post in the classrooms of its elementary schools a version of the Ten Commandments. The version was to be the same as that used in nearby Huntington since 1954. It was so worded as to offend no particular faith, did not involve any religious instruction. But no sooner had the decision been made than the area was in an uproar...
...Evenou lived in a fashionable house in suburban Choisy-le-Roi (of which he was once the mayor) and was regarded as a fine obstetrician. But most of his patients in Choisy thought it wiser not to call him to their sickbeds after nightfall: he often showed more than a professional interest in women. His third marriage in 1946 to gentle, adoring Marie-Claire Milhavet seemed an answer to all his problems. Marie-Claire was not only pretty and well-to-do but astonishingly broadminded. Eleven years after their marriage, Dr. Evenou was happily established at the head...
...failure of human beings to communicate with one another. In the title story, a dusty professor in a dusty Midwest college tries desperately to explain the purpose of art to his attentive life class, which is embarrassed by life. The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge flashes a series of suburban snapshots of a well-intentioned matron who might just as well be calling to Mars for all the contact she makes with her friends, her relatives or herself. The Walls 'of Avila has fun with the return of the native: an expatriate comes home after ten years abroad...
...deliver her mother's embroidery to the fine houses on Washington Square and St. John's Park. Her one ambition was to break into that glittery world and call it her own. She made it. Today more and more social climbing is merely the ascent from one suburban foothill to a slightly higher hill ; in Louise's day more dramatic mountaineering was frequent, and her own climb was a veritable conquest of Everest...