Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little things are what the ex-prisoner will notice first, phenomena that civilians have long since absorbed. That local double bill, for example: Suburban Wives and Tower of Screaming Virgins. Four years ago, it would have been restricted to a few downtown grind-houses. Today, blue-movie palaces are as much a part of the suburbs as the wildly proliferating McDonald'ses. Shaking his head, the new Van Winkle heads for a newsstand. Here, there is still more catching up to do. A copy of Look? No way. Life? No more. How about a copy of Crawdaddy, Screw, Money...
...series of decisions beginning in September 1971, Federal Judge Stephen Roth further angered white parents by ordering the city's schools to integrate with those of 52 suburbs. Though his rulings are still under appeal, they would require that about 310,000 children be bused between city and suburban schools-about 40% of the total in the metropolitan area...
...came to the U.S. at the age of 15. When he was Bishop of Brownsville, Texas, he often traveled with migrant farm workers and joined their battle for better wages. Since his accession in Boston in 1970, he has aligned himself with Boston's poor as well, assailing suburban Catholics for their failure to aid the inner city. A critic of the Viet Nam War, he condemned the bombing of Hanoi in his Christmas morning sermon...
Television has explored the American Dream and the American family in one incarnation or another since the early fifties. For the most part television producers have restricted their perspectives to the outlook of the situation comedy where bumbling parents and sophisticated kids wade through one suburban cliche after another or the soapopera where the sappy organ music aptly complements the artificial emotional crises. Television's presentation of the collapse of the American Dream was typified by Beaver Cleaver flunking fourth-grade math, or more recently by Archie Bunker confronting black neighbors with more education than he. Except for occasional glimpses...
...would surface." Gilbert has misplaced his faith, unfortunately. The universals do not emerge because the context of his family's life is never fully established. Why is the American Dream disintegrating? Gilbert says that the Louds are "neither typical nor average--no family is." The Louds own an expensive suburban house, several cars, endless gadgets; the children have "all the advantages," the parents travel where they will. Study of their life reveals little about the great social upheavals tearing at this society's guts; their lives show only the indirect effects-- moral uncertainty, aimlessness, most of all boredom...