Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right with God, I can accept myself. What else does it do? It makes me able to stand here today and say 'I love you' to a black man, where two years ago I couldn't have done that." Brezina grew up in rural Texas; his suburban audience was all white. (Like athletics in general, Christian athletics has quietly broken down racial barriers over the years...
...with Beaver Cleaver and compared SAT scores. Both of us recall much of our past as photos from Life and the cover of Newsweek. Not surprisingly, many of her recollections -- if not her conclusions -- from growing up in Durham, New Hampshire, are similar to mine, from growing up in suburban Philadelphia...
...Arbor, Mich. Autos were placed on a chassis dynamometer (a device consisting of recording gauges linked to two large cylinders set parallel in a floor; a car is moved onto the cylinders, and its drive wheels move them during the test) and theoretically piloted over a typical 7.5-mile suburban and urban route by expert drivers who followed a computer-prepared strip chart at an average speed of 35 m.p.h...
...still an air of sanctity to the towns themselves: his people still cherish the idea of community, even if all the familiar points of reference, the town halls and the churches, are flying off in pinwheel motion. Cheever is still writing about all the problems that began to plague suburban literature in the 50s: psychic and spiritual dislocation, the retreat from outward chaos into inward fantasy. Cheever doesn't even try to confront the new social dynamics caused by plastic cities and media zombieism (as another New Yorker John, Mr. Updike, always does...
CHEEVER'S STORIES are packed with detail and cross-current. They all end up saying more than a swift reading of the action would deliver. "The Four Alarms"--the first story in the book, and one of the cleverest--tells about a fairly young suburban housewife who tires of teaching and goes into theatrics, and winds up acting in a circa '69 nude play (Ozamanides II). "Oh, I'm so happy," she says when she gets the part. "Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents wrote...