Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marilyn French's first novel, The Women's Room, entwines all these overworked themes and setting. Only, as the frustrated reader surprisingly discovers, somehow it works. Just as you reach the point of nausea over a suburban kitchen dialogue, or read one more Harvard grad student gripe, French's narrator intervenes, letting you know that she too is bored...
More alarming is the fact that nine out of ten high school students attend small-city and rural institutions or quiet suburban schools, and that these schools, once the very symbols of the best the U.S. could do for its children, are also suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
When a Long Island, N.Y., service-station operator named Franklin Mirando checked into a suburban hospital in July 1975 for the implanting of an artificial hip joint, he had little reason for concern. Such operations are routinely performed more than 100,000 times a year in the U.S., and have kept countless people on their feet who might otherwise be left permanently crippled by arthritis and other ailments. But Mirando's surgery turned into a permanent nightmare. He was left in constant pain, with a right leg two inches shorter than his left and unable to walk without crutches...
Following fast on the heels of another lurid Texas trial-a Houston civil-court jury last month cleared Oilman Ash Robinson of charges that he had conspired to murder his son-in-law-the trial of Cullen Davis has all the trappings of a suburban western. One August night in 1976, a black-wigged intruder broke into the $6 million Fort Worth mansion where Davis' estranged wife Priscilla lived with a new lover, ex-Basketball Player Stan Farr. In the shooting rampage that followed, Farr and Andrea Wilborn, 12, Priscilla's daughter by a previous marriage, were left...
Today, the Indians have set their priorities. They are building suburban pre-fabs to house their large families efficiently (often as large as 13 or 14), they send their children to Eastport High School after eighth grade, although only a quarter of the entering Indian freshmen graduate...