Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leave It to Beaver suburban world of the American '50s, the family and the child were enveloped in a cherishing mythology. Americans, it was even said, had grown obsessively kiddified; they were child-worshipers who sentimentalized their offspring in a complacent land of Little League and Disney. Toward the end of the Eisenhower years, the literary critic Leslie Fiedler wrote a lively diatribe about the "cult of the child," which he denounced as "this most maudlin of primitivisms...
Yadkin County is tough and poor. The old farmhouses are quaint and a bit depressing. A few years ago the drive through the county was probably lovely. The winding country roads, however, are now marred by small suburban houses. Mobile homes clutter the farmland, sheltering farmers' married children who can't afford a house of their own, or old people who can't pay to repair the dilapidated houses their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived...
Every seat in suburban Long Island's Nassau Coliseum was occupied, and the hockey fans were in full throat. The New York Islanders, two months a franchise in the National Hockey League, were taking on their mighty Manhattan rivals, the New York Rangers, for the first time and the cheers of the crowd were deafening. And, for the Islanders, galling: the first full house in the team's history was rooting for the Rangers...
...suburban house in Glassboro, N.J., 21 miles southeast of Philadelphia, there stands a 72-year-old rattle-and-clank printing press. When Richard Mitchell, the doting owner and an English professor of 16 years' service at Glassboro State College, is asked why on earth a man would want to buy his own press, his very own Chandler & Price, he squashes his soft hat down on his head, raises one finger in a hark-the-angel gesture, and proclaims: "The spirit of Gutenberg stood before me and said, 'Mitch...'" At such moments Mitch looks a bit like...
Republican State Senator Victor Ashe was so angry with Blanton that he promised to seek removal of the ex-Governor's name from three state college buildings. Said Ashe: "Students attending classes in them may be inclined to cheat." Later, from the steps of his private suburban home, Blanton, a former three-term member of Congress, offered no apologies. Said he: "History will record that we did the right and proper thing...