Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are practically as many varieties of sheep chicers as there are of sheep. Take Bob Warn and his wife Pat. A 67-year-old retired Air Force officer, Warn moved from suburban New Jersey to northern New Hampshire a year ago, plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from...
...event of the day for the eighth-grade students at Ken Caryl Junior High School in suburban Denver is the "Great Boil-Over." Under the rules, contestants are pitted against one another to determine who can boil water fastest ?with the least amount of fuel. The exercise is part of a growing trend in U.S. elementary and high schools: instruction in the basics of energy conservation. The aim is to prepare students for a world where energy is no longer cheap or plentiful. Teachers explain how students' fuel-using habits touch on the larger issues of dwindling supplies...
Cheever's novels and short stories, while statements of traditional morality, explore universal themes within the setting of latter-day America. A master of satire, Cheever most often studies the effects of modern pressures on the contemporary morality of the suburban middle-class, yet he never loses a sense of warmth and compassion toward his subjects. He sharpened his ear for dialogue in years of short-story writing for The New Yorker, among other publications, and has since graduated to novels, including The Wapshot Chronical and last year's impressive best-seller, Falconer...
Throughout this week, alumni will visit the Boston Pops, tour Quincy market, enjoy a New England lobster dinner at a suburban country club, and dance and drink to jazz combos...
...nation's canals and railroads in the 19th century has the U.S. displayed a more magnetic attraction to overseas investors. Foreign money from almost everywhere is flooding into co-op apartments in Manhattan and Miami condominiums, sprawling petrochemical complexes in Houston and quaint dairy farms in Vermont, suburban shopping centers and downtown office buildings and hotels. Capital from overseas is financing the construction of new factories in every region and the takeover of old-line U.S. corporations of every description. The money is going into farm land, ranch land and waterfront resort communities...