Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Through that system, he thinks, Silliman men (Salamanders) will develop loyalties toward each other rather than toward the master or the tradition of the College, as in most of the other nine colleges. "What I'm trying to get," Greene explained, "is an antidote to the disinterest typical of suburban living. I think we've got it. If I tried to abolish this council now I think I'd have a riot on my hands, I hope...
...Nuys Boulevard in suburban Los Angeles last week, used-car Dealer Jack Black put up signs around his lot: "GOING-BROKE" sale. Excited Dealer Black was complaining about the Federal Reserve Board's new restrictions on installment buying, which had cut the payoff time on cars from 21 months to 15 (TIME, Oct. 23). When such controls had been slapped on in 1948, Black said he had lost $13,500 and had been forced to go out of business. This time he said he was quitting before the loss; at week's end he had cleared...
...born in steady, suburban Westfield, N.J., attended Colgate and the University of Pennsylvania for a while until he hit on what seemed a better idea: professional art school. One day he sold a decorative sketch to The New Yorker, soon began to sell them cartoons too. Nowadays, reliable as anything, he does 40 to 50 cartoons a year for the magazine...
...Under a local "little McCarran" law, Communists living in or passing through New Rochelle, N.Y. were ordered to register by midnight, Sept. 28. Midnight passed in suburban New Rochelle with only one registration: an elderly, civic-minded Republican who thought the regulation was for "commuters...
...that, along with the chance it gives people to act, is just about its only virtue. It is one of those triangle stories of the husband, the wife and the offspring treated to a British mixture of the melodramatic, the mawkish and the scandalous. It is Freud for suburban housewives whose buzzing classroom is the Wednesday matinee. Offering theft as an aperitif, it follows up with a seemingly headier and more dangerous brew that is actually rather saccharine and soporific...