Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Look who orders us around and buses our children,' they tell Coles, who in turn brings their case before the readers of The Boston Globe, The New York Review of Books and elsewhere. 'Garrity, who lives in ritzy suburban Wellesley; Mayor White, who sends his kids out to the private academies; the editors of The Globe, most of whom skipped town as quick as we would if we had the money.' No doubt they also take note that even Coles, their interpreter, if not spokesman, likes his safe, bucolic home in Concord to go home...
...black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts of South Boston, Roxbury and suburban high mortgage, low-admission Dover...
...precisely sure of the reasons for the exurban increases, but there are some theories: rural and suburban police have improved crime reporting methods; youths in affluent suburbs are finding crime increasingly attractive; the nation's highway system has enabled criminals to become fast commuters...
...play with his wife Vivien (a better player than he is), there were times when he did not dare look at her on the court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick, a suburban New York mixed-doubles player, remembers that once while playing with a woman, not his wife, he inadvertently cleared his throat. "Now don't you start in," she said, turning on him. "This is as bad as playing with my husband...
Survival, if by less dire means, is a subject for which Allan Carr has near-Andean credentials. He was hopelessly show-biz-struck as a kid named Alan Solomon in suburban Highland Park, Ill. At 21 he changed his last name and the spelling of his first. He landed a job as general manager of Chicago's Civic Theater, staging such productions as The World of Carl Sandburg, with Bette Davis and Gary Merrill. "I also flew in Carl Sandburg," Carr recalls superciliously, "who brought a little carton of goat's milk." The aspiring entrepreneur arrived in Hollywood...