Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost from the day they were married eleven years ago, Chuck Dribin and his wife Alice Eysenbach began salting away savings toward a home in suburban Chicago. "But something always seemed to happen," recalls Dribin, 38, a high school speech teacher. "Every time we saved $5,000, interest rates jumped and we needed $10,000." Even with a solidly middle-class income (now $40,000 between them), Dribin and Eysenbach, 39, a part-time teacher and actor, wondered whether they would ever be able to unlock the door to home ownership...
Some of the most ingenious schemes have sprung up in California, where prices are generally highest. To buy a $244,000, three-bedroom house last year in suburban Orange County, Elise and Rick Petree, engineers with a combined annual salary of $70,000, used an increasingly popular technique known as equity sharing. A private investor put up $22,950 for their down payment, and a local firm called CoEquity, which pioneered such deals in the area, provided $12,200. The Petrees invested $10,000 and now make $2,220 in monthly payments, including $1,872 to the mortgage lender...
...life in wealthy suburbia. The comedy is a reworking of the story of Job and follows the adventures of Joe Benjamin, a wealthy Jewish resident of Long Island. God's Favorite did not receive rave reviews at the time of its publication, as critics complained that its stereotyping of suburban life was trite and unoriginal. It will be interesting to see how the Hillel players present the play...
...million in additional funding for the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) program, bringing the budget to $14.3 million. METCO, a program designed to combat segregation in education, pays for the transportation of Black Boston youths to suburban schools...
...novel Couples, John Updike was also tearing down facades, capturing the heavy breathing of the Protestant middle-class and other suburban satyrs and nymphs. "Adultery lit her from within," he wrote of one character, "like the ashen mantle of a lamp, or as if an entire house of gauzy hangings and partitions were ignited but refused to be consumed and, rather, billowed and glowed, its structure incandescent." Overwritten, perhaps, but in 1968 sex was a particularly American theme. As another Updike character said, "We're trying to break back into ((hedonism)). It's not easy...