Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about Van Doren from poets and philosophers, from former teachers and old classmates, even from his landlady while he was a student at Cambridge University and a poker-playing Army buddy, now an advertising man in Huntington, W. Va. While Contributing Editor James Atwater tracked down other sources in suburban Connecticut, on the Columbia campus and in Greenwich Village, Researcher Audrey Blodgett and Associate Editor Lester Bernstein, who wrote the cover story, quizzed Van Doren himself. During the interview, Bernstein and Van Doren quickly discovered that they had one thing in common: both are former TIME correspondents in England...
Virginia's famed Mrs. Chipsian Lucy Madeira Wing, 83, resigned after 51 years as headmistress of suburban Washington's genteel Madeira School. Schoolmarm Madeira, a doughty New Dealer, kept her girls, including daughters of such notable capital names as Morgenthau, Hopkins and Saltonstall, in green jumper uniforms, out of lipstick, with chaperoned escorts, and under a stiff liberal-arts regimen. Her favorite mottoes, watchwords to two generations of time-tried Madeira maidens: "Function in disaster!" and "Finish in style...
Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which once considered moving its home from Manhattan to suburban Westchester County, last week announced plans for a new office in the city. Next year Union Carbide will start work on a 52-story, $46 million steel-and-glass skyscraper on the Park Avenue site of the old Marguery hotel, expects to move in early...
Boilerplate & Bumpkin Prose. In many areas, fast-growing suburbs have produced weekly and semiweekly chains that are as slick in appearance and informative in content as their city cousins. Chicago's Arlington Heights Herald and seven other suburban weeklies (combined circ. 20,630) owned by Paddock Publications led all U.S. weeklies last year in advertising volume. Cleveland's Heights Sun-Press (circ. 29,000), serving 14 communities, runs a regular Washington column on subjects that affect suburbanites, boasts that none of the political candidates or school bond issues it has backed in twelve years has been defeated...
...poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications of The Sphere...