Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...things have never since been as polite as they once were. Still, golfers maintained the right to complain when their concentration was affronted. The problem has not been as bothersome in professional tennis, probably because of the composition, and the style, of those who watched, country clubbers and suburban elites, firm believers all in the etiquette of the game. When commercial sponsors started backing tennis heavily in the early '60s, a popular participation mushroomed. Entrepreneurs figured that they could tune into something big--the problem, were the killing to be made was to unleash tennis from its dignified moorings...
...remotely linked to the ill-gotten profits of cronies caught with their hands in the till, but scandal has touched his family. He never denied that in 1972 he used his influence to get the city controller to place millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an obscure suburban agency that employed his son John Patrick as a solicitor. Said Daley: "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's this world coming to?" The mayor has also been embarrassed by the revelation that John Patrick and another...
...recent federal survey indicates other wise. Government investigators found that savings and loans collected $110 million in deposits from residents of two middle-class Chicago neighborhoods last year but disbursed less than $3 million in mortgage money back into those localities; most of the money was loaned to suburban borrowers, often at interest rates far lower than those paid by city home buyers. Since federal strictures against redlining have proved all but unenforceable in the past, the most vigorous fight against the practice doubtless will be waged on the local level for some time to come...
...summary, such goings-on may sound hopelessly elfin, self-indulgent or absurd. But Jones' surrealist fragments produce in the reader's mind the same edgy excitement and slight disorientation that a suburban householder feels upon entering wild country. It is a delicately calculated trick, but it works. Easy slashes of cruelty cut the airy imagining. " Try this,' I told my son. I handed him a two-ounce, slightly chewed Yellow Cab with a treble hook mounted on the front bumper ... Inside a minute, he had three wiggling pedestrians on the hook ... One was a girl...
After graduating in 1957 from Wheaton (Ill.) College and being ordained by the conservative, independent La Grange Bible Church, Gothard worked with teen-agers in suburban churches as well as youth gangs in Chicago. Both groups were similarly disturbed, he decided, and their family life was to blame. To counteract their personal problems, he developed a set of absolute "principles," like his theory about God's chain of command...