Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture of the Ruhr reeks of human ruin. Its smells jar the senses; its sounds are grotesque. Böll writes with simple beauty, but often he treats despair with that detailed evenness that the dull st of The New Yorker writers apply to domestic crises in suburban Connecticut. And sometimes Author Böll's sense of the macabre runs amuck. As Kate tells Fred that she is pregnant again, the druggists outside the hotel are applauding a flight of small planes that drop contraceptive ads followed by red rubber toy storks with broken necks...
...farm price-support issue is still a pregnant national topic for debate, there is little chance of a big shift away from the Republican Party in the farm districts. But the farm situation will have some local effects. Example: Missouri's Fourth District, which lies half in suburban Kansas City and half in adjoining farm country. There, Republican Incumbent Jeffrey P. Hillelson's troubles are caused more by the elements than by the Eisenhower farm program. The district has been hard hit by drought, and in the Fourth District of Missouri, the incumbent Congressman has a hard time...
...step with the new trend in American life-the flight to the suburbs-as tabloids were to the jazz-happy '20s. When she launched Newsday on alligator-shaped Long Island in 1940, Publisher Patterson set out to violate every canon of sedate, well-mannered and deadly dull suburban journalism. Instead of loading her paper with name-dropping personal columns, handouts, accounts of tea parties and bake sales and local news that would offend no one, Newsday ran sprightly and irreverent stories, headlined everything from PROTECTED GAMBLING IN SUFFOLK COUNTY to SOCIALITE TOSSED INTO CELL...
...improve on four basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved to chat so is still drinkin' in her stinkin' pink palazzo. There are images and characters...
...cavernous stage in suburban Los Angeles last week, a TV play was in the throes of dress rehearsal after eight days of tough practice and preparation. Sets representing scenes in an upstate New York home, in Manhattan and in London were ranged in a circle around a cluster of cameras, microphone booms and cables. Overhead glared a battery of lights. In and around the sets moved actors, cameramen, soundmen, stagehands, assistant directors and a stage manager in a reasonable facsimile of confusion. From the control booth, Director Seymour Kulik barked commands to his headset-wearing assistants as the actors, electricians...