Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showed so much promise that her parents and music teacher decided to enter her in the ministry's contest. When she won, her father took a leave of absence, now lives comfortably, at his government's expense, with his wife and child in an apartment in suburban Sevres. ¶ Hasan Kaplan, 14, lives with his sister, mother and father, a retired naval officer turned art teacher, in a hotel on the Left Bank. Having begun to paint as a toddler, Hasan has had a one-man show in Turkey, exhibited his canvases in both Paris and New York...
Last week the stag mags* were in the midst of a censorship battle that raged all the way from Boston to Los Angeles, from suburban mothers' clubs to the Supreme Court. In New York, where police in the past six months have seized some 2,000 copies of 15 different magazines under city obscenity laws, a publishing newsletter protested: "Never in the history of the magazine industry have the newsstands been flooded with so many borderline, semi-obscene and actually pornographic periodicals." Legislatures in ten states were considering bills that would make it illegal to distribute or sell...
...villa in suburban Cairo one night last week went Canadian Ambassador Herbert Norman. 47, just back from seeing the Japanese movie, Mask of Destiny, with an Egyptian friend. Alone in the villa's great, silent library after midnight, Norman poured himself some straight shots of whisky while his wife slept in her bedroom. Next morning, weary from months of overwork, heavy-eyed from an almost sleepless night, Norman left home without waking his wife, walked slowly to the eight-story Nile View apartment building near by. Moments after he entered the building, he appeared on the roof-a tall...
...University, according to President Pusey, is very interested in the project which may induce more faculty members to live in Cambridge and thereby help to create the mythical "academic community." At present many faculty members prefer to live in other more attractive suburban areas...
...farmer who was driven to desperate ventures by the cruel Yankee-panky of his neighbors in the days that followed the Civil War. "He's just a man," somebody sobs, "who loves his family and his home." Matter of fact, as Robert Wagner plays the part with soft suburban face, the hero could pass for a rising young broker. As for all that gunplay, it seems to have been nothing more than James & Co.'s old-fashioned interpretation of the Personalized Approach...