Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...touch more vulgar than before, word-playing his way through another marital war. This one includes a husband who develops a yen for his surrogate mother-in-law. John Cheever and Bernard Malamud have collections of short stories, both domestic, the one (The World of Apples) waspish and suburban, the other (Rembrandt's Hat) Jewish and urban. Evan S. Connell Jr., once more roving far from the Bridges of Kansas City, has produced Points for a Compass Rose, a poetic meditation upon the pain and perplexity of life, with instances taken from history and myth...
...Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting Go (1962) and When She Was Good (1967) were grim and blistering forced marches through America with full literary field pack...
President Bok has stated, "What I really want to do is give the Yard the aura of a great grassy mall." What the architect has contrived is an appalling combination of a suburban shopping plaza, every golfer's nightmare of an eighteenth hole, and a mausoleum (perhaps designed for the 60 most active members of the GSTFU). When one consider the utopian promises of Stubbins and Associates, Disney World pales by comparison...
...book for sale, the mayor's wife, "Sis," was so incensed she got one chain of Chicago supermarkets to remove it from its shelves. It was soon put back, however, and it has now been made into a musical that will open in Chicago's suburban Forum Theater next month. Hizzoner is played by Larry Gittelson, who, when he isn't acting, works as a floriculturist with the Chicago Park District. How long he will have the city job may be a question. During rehearsals, his home phone is answered by a taped message: "This is Richard...
Looking back over delay the Library has encountered mainly because of the choice of an urban location, it is easy to speculate that the Library would have been better off in a suburban setting, with plenty of parking and picnic grounds. Yet somehow, isolating Kennedy away from people's lives, making the Library a day-trip into the country, would be a less fitting memorial than a complex situated in Cambridge...