Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same rights. But that is not the kind of society we have now. The issue now is not integrated housing--an obvious goal, though one difficult to achieve without deep change in the structure of American government or society. The issue right now isn't even extending integration to suburban school districts. The Supreme Court threw that out for most of the country a few months ago, in its ruling that suburbs of Detroit need not take part in court-ordered plans for integrating that city's schools. Our choice isn't between busing and perfect justice, but between busing...
...passion of the resistance to integration derived from this pattern. The pattern included the Northern liberals, some of them oblivious to the racism in their home towns, who went South to impose a new sensibility on white people in America's least developed section. And it includes suburban liberals willing to fight for integration to the last South Bostoner. Partly the pattern depends upon the special importance some people with little access to real power attach to those advantages they enjoy. Partly it grows from the unwillingness of people with more real power to sacrifice some of it, however they...
...private life-style matches his professional modesty. Father of four (a fifth child died last year), he lives inconspicuously in an unpretentious house in suburban Maryland. He does not smoke, drinks only an occasional gin-and-tonic or glass of wine, and is a devout Catholic. His favorite recreations are sailing and bicycling...
PAUL SAND in FRIENDS and LOVERS (CBS, Saturday, 8:30 p.m. E.D.T.) exemplifies another virtue of the Moore style, which is to get people out of bland Brady Bunch suburban housing and show them working at jobs that are odd and interesting. Having Moore herself work in a local TV newsroom was a stroke of genius, since the setting provides endless possibilities for novel situations; similarly, it is a relief that Rhoda's new boy friend is not an ad man or an architect, but in the wrecking and salvage business. As for Sand, he lives in a jumbled...
...would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger than it is today in the U.S. and Canada, where with aircraft, power boats and well-laden wallets, romantics and hard-nosed investors alike can seek modern Happy Isles remote from the purgatory of urban-suburban life...