Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wife Lona were delighted when in 1955 they were able to adopt an eight-month-old German orphan. Dori, a bright-eyed blonde, was duly examined by German authorities, found to be normal, was sent to live with the Damerons in their $19,000, three-bedroom home in suburban Silver Spring, Md. As Dori grew older, Dameron prepared her for a delightful surprise: she would soon, he told her one day, have a baby brother to play with...
Modern-day rustlers broke into a suburban San Francisco cemetery, made off with the tombstone of the West's TV-famed scourge of badmen. Dodge City's Town Marshal Wyatt Earp...
...moonlighters are in subordinate jobs. In Chicago recently an office worker went to his suburban shopping center to buy a suit. The clerk who fitted him was his boss...
Critics of suburban religion, says Odiorne, are really attacking the suburbs, not just their churches. "The conformity which characterizes suburban life is the real object of their derision. They would have suburbia turn its back on this 'other directedness' and arrive at individual commitment through an atomistic thinking-through or insight." But "the very suburban mind which is looked at with fear by the detractors may well be the basis for a beginning of a new Christian era." Perhaps it is because the critics of suburban religion "lack insight into the nature of modern society and the group...
Group Therapy. Odiorne concedes that the suburban church's proliferation of activities may be a waste of time and an escape from more spiritual undertakings, but he maintains that to the seasoned church worker this is "the available frontier" from which people can be brought deeper into the spiritual life. As for the frequent charge that suburban churches are top-heavy with the managerial elite, he replies that this is true of the communities themselves-hence of their churches. But "even suburbia has its drawers of water and hewers of wood, who enjoy positions of influence in suburban churches...