Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLOSER LOOK at the Murdoch chain reveals that comparisons with other presslords past and present may be premature. Twenty-three per cent of Murdoch's papers are English weeklies; another 30 are suburban Australian weekly papers that are practically given away. But there is one thing that can be said of the Murdoch papers--almost uniformly, they make money, and lots of it. One of the few exceptions is the Sydney-based Australian, which as Australia's leading newspaper, threw considerable clout into the election of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. A few years later The Australian threw even more...
...inattentive to their needs. The Daley machine was also dogged by charges of corruption. No one ever thought he was on the take himself-he lived too frugally. But he was permissive with friends and family. Criticized for steering millions of dollars in city insurance to an obscure suburban agency where his son worked, he replied, "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming...
Time was when a man feeling loaded, fond and possibly guilty at Christmas time would hie himself to Tiffany or Cartier and buy his loved one a little something to make her feel like Cleopatra-an epithalamium of emeralds, say, or a modest suburban tiara. The trend in recent years, however, seems to have been away from the unilateral bauble and toward the his and her extravaganza, particularly of the shared, sensory and sensational sort...
...same civilized tone pervades this epistolatory collection-missives, telegrams and interoffice memos-thai ranges back to White's suburban boyhood in Westchester, N.Y., then follows him through careers as student, editorialist, humorist, farmer and, finally, retiree to the shores of Maine...
...been a big seller at the Hathaway store recently, along with "Sybil,"--a work that has experienced a marked increase in popularity since a TV series by the same name began this fall. Hale says he does not understand why students are buying these books, explaining "these are suburban house wife books and I am very surprised that students are buying them...