Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John Gurwell, publisher of Houston's suburban Bellaire Texan and River Oaks Times (combined circ. 6,958), says that weeklies "are giving back the home town" to suburbanites who have lost contact with community responsibilities...
...comfortable limousine (Cadillac), comfortable protection (Secret Service), as well as a certain stature. What it does not carry is the advantage of an official residence-not even an uncomfortable one. Vice President Richard Nixon, for example, lives in his own home ($41,000) in Washington's suburban Spring Valley. In his budget message last week, President Eisenhower suggested that Congress' "attention should be directed to the acquisition and maintenance of an official residence for the Vice President," but asked for no money to buy one. This brought on unofficial suggestions that some well-to-do fellow who owns...
...think of itself as 160 million individualists, but is filling up with a new generation that is more than half in love with easeful life. This generation, thinks Whyte, has deliberately lowered its sights to a safe, sound, specialized job within some "company family" and membership in a suburban group where nothing is split but the split-level home...
...refusal to become merely another Cadillac-comforted caricature. He pursued learning as others pursued the black gold. "So you're the Texan who can read," remarked a cynical reporter one day in the library of De-Golyer's impeccably furnished Mexican-style palace in suburban Dallas. Standing in the huge, 15ft-high room choked to the ceiling with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books...
...knows how many similar gimmicks are in operation, but during the past few years they have spread so fast as to become almost a characteristic feature of U.S. religion. In the New York City area there are at least three other installations, in New England five. Detroit's suburban Highland Park Presbyterian Church (one of four in Michigan) lists its "Lifeline" phone number in the newspapers, and when Minister Robert C. Young, 36, hears from his office the low buzz of a new call, he makes a short, silent prayer for the caller...