Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone, "the Old Man in a hurry." At 37, Lord Randolph was Leader of the House of Commons, boss of the Treasury ("the youngest since Pitt"), and husband of the American beauty, Jennie Jerome. He maddened old Queen Victoria with his pugnacity and determination...
...overrule Tariff Commission recommendations in the interests of U.S. trade as a whole. ¶Packing for a South American tour, Vice President Nixon nevertheless took time out to provide chow, chat and charm for some of his most consistent critics. To an off-record evening at his home in suburban Wesley Heights, Nixon invited a dozen British Washington correspondents who have given the readers at home a general picture of Nixon as a cross between a slick operator and an unprincipled opportunist. Nixon ducked no questions except those that implied criticism of the President. He apologized for nothing, admitted that...
...year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze, The Manipulator, by British Sculptor-Welder Reg Butler. Still sticking to his father's advice, "Never look for a bargain," Bareiss buys "only what I like...
...enough to induce forgiveness for their failure to know their own child. ¶Tho' the Pleasant Life Is Dancing Round tries to show how even exterior happiness may fail to reconcile a brilliant teen-age boy to the tragic quota of life. Loved and even coddled by his suburban parents, he does not ask what's-in-it-for-me but what-does-it-have-to-offer-for-anyone? After a fearful tour of the lower depths of London, he has his answer: nothing. His suicide will seem improbable only to grownups who have forgotten the questionings...
Many cities of the North are now faced with a vast increase in their Negro populations, caused by the mass in-migration of Southern Negroes and the exodus of the middle classes to suburban areas, Wilkins said. "After mistreating Negroes for decades," he explained, "Southerners are now shipping them north and saying 'you take care of them...