Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe, a matron laments about the Detroit area: "This place is becoming a jungle." She is considering moving to California. In suburban Los Angeles, Morris Boswell, 52, a bulldozer operator, says that Wallace will be elected. Then, he says, "the punks, the queers, the demonstrators and the hippies-we're going to put them on a barge and ship 'em off to China. Or better yet, sink...
...girls whom the Chinese, in pre-Communist days, called "gold boughs and jade leaves," or descendants of noble houses. Like the rest of China's 375 million women, they adhere to austere and sexless blue-uniformity in public. There the similarity, and the egalitarianism, ends. In the plush suburban villas that Peking's leaders call home, they enjoy servants...
...mystical renaissance is evident everywhere, from television to department stores. This year three TV series will deal with witches and ghosts. The movie Rosemary's Baby is both demonological and boxoffice. Miniskirted suburban matrons cast the I Ching or shuffle tarot cards before setting dates for dinner parties. Hippies, with their drug-sensitized yen for magic, are perhaps the prime movers behind the phenomenon. Not only do they sport beads and amulets that have supposed magical powers; they also believe firmly and frighteningly in witchcraft. Some of the hippie mysticism is a calculated put-on-as when Abbie Hoffman...
...gradually shifted over to the moderate faction of the party; the moderates under Sen. William B. Sprong's leadership are a swing group who now have widespread electoral support; the liberals led by Henry Howell of Norfolk have significant organizational and electoral support in black urban areas and white suburban communities around the District of Columbia as well as in Norfolk. If the moderates and conservatives don't unite behind moderate gubernatorial candidate William Battle in the 1969 party primary, then Howell, the liberal choice, may win the nomination--although probably lose the general election to a strong GOP candidate...
...liberals must either work within the old party structure to take it over--not build a stronger parallel structure within the party as in California--or give up and form a new party. This hasn't been very effective in the past because liberals, whether because of their suburban anti-partisan phobia or for some other reason, continually shy away from the drudgery of precinct-leaderdom. In Pennsylvania and New York significant reform groups have risen many times, but they never worked long enough to bring about a permanent change in the style of their state's politics...