Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ebullient state of Dr. Jung's own psyche is a striking argument for the soundness of his ideas. He is a massive 7 6-year-old man, who seems to row himself joyfully about his home in suburban Küsnacht with large, oarlike hands. He lives a happy domestic life with his wife, who is a practicing psychiatrist; they have 19 grandchildren. He speaks English with an American accent and vocabulary, explaining that he considers American English more emotional and directly influenced by the unconscious mind than English English is. His white hair usually looks as though...
...years ago, Richard Perkins, an architect's assistant, and his wife Lois, a newspaperwoman, found a way to lick the high cost of a house. They set to work to build their own, although neither had ever done much manual work before. They bought a hillside lot in suburban Tamalpais Valley and pulled on blue overalls. Working nights and weekends, they wheeled in 32 tons of gravel for the foundation, spent 13 weekends raising the framing. Eight months later, they moved into their small, modern redwood home. For their $5,000 in cash, plus their "sweat equity," the Perkinses...
Thrown among the Communists in Paris' suburban Red Belt, the abbés' working-class enthusiasm got the better of them. When the Red workers marched, both priests joined in and were pinched...
...minute composition began with a spine-tingling run on the clarinet, launched into a satire of suburban domestic strife with a jazzy Greek chorus, pantomime action and modern musical effects. Lennie's libretto, in which his unhappily married couple climaxed a day of frustration by going to an escapist movie, was a little too real to be funny. One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated...
Bayard L. Kilgour, Jr.--President, Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Co. and Citizens Telephone...