Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ed was five, another of the six surviving children died, and his parents decided that Manhattan was no place to raise a family. They moved to Port Chester, an industrial town on the Connecticut state line, ringed by such suburban garden spots as Greenwich and Rye. As a boy, Ed gave his interest to reading and sports. His favorite author was Sir Walter Scott, with his romantic yarns of knights, ladies, tournaments, good and evil. Ed had no doubt about where the knights and ladies lived and where good and evil flourished. The place, naturally, was Manhattan...
...saints of suburbia are the gogetters. Under their influence suburban church life has become so thriving, says the Rev. Gibson Winter of Brighton, Mich, in the Christian Century, that it "has become the controlling force in American Christianity." What effect has this shift had on the church's spiritual message? Answers Episcopalian Winter: "Despite the strength it has produced, this domination is a threat to the church's witness to Christ's lordship...
...anti-Christian forces dominating the leadership introduced into the churches by the suburban captivity far offset the numerical and financial gains . . . The captivity of the church is a national tragedy of the first order, for it occurs at a time when America's position of world leadership requires a prophetic church at home . . . [It] may well be God's word of judgment upon us as his church. For our trespasses and complacency, we have been delivered to Babylon...
...Silver home. Yes, Doris had died, but at the "home of a friend." That was all he could learn. On a hunch, he phoned the city morgue, found that a "Shirley Silver" had been brought in the night before. Her home address was 1500 Melrose Avenue in suburban Melrose Park, the same as that of Heiress Doris Silver Oestreicher...
...John Wanamaker's suburban department store in Yonkers, N.Y. last week, shoppers crowded around a 47-in.-high automobile, small enough to jump over. It had only three wheels and a tiny (10 h.p.) engine, hooked up to the single rear wheel. But it was no toy. It could carry three passengers at a 'top speed of 60 m.p.h., could go 94 miles on a gallon of gasoline. The price: $869 to $998. The maker: the Messerschmitt Works of Regensburg, West Germany...