Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comely, amber-eyed Phyllis McGinley is a suburban housewife and mother whose lively curiosity and needle-pointed mind produce some of the most wryly pleasant light verse now being written. New Yorker readers have delighted for 20 years in the stings of her short barbs, sharpened on the complexities of modern living. She has published six books of poetry (the last, in 1951, an unabashed panegyric to suburbia called A Short Walk From the Station) and eight books for children...
...Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries. A punny farce about sin and redemption in suburban Connecticut (TIME...
...lady." pleaded a top cop, "you can't go to the Semiramis. Pick any place anywhere in Egypt, in the whole damn world for all we care. But please, please don't say the Semiramis." At 4 a.m. Zouzou capitulated; she would take a suite in a suburban hospital...
PENN CENTER office and residential development in Philadelphia, which was started last year by Manhattan's Uris Bros. (TIME, June 1, 1953), is getting a big addition. For $35 million, Philadelphia Contractor Matthew McCloskey bought the 24-story Pennsylvania Suburban Station Building, will build a four-or five-story transportation center nearby, topped by an eight-story tower for offices for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries. A punny farce about sin and redemption in suburban Connecticut (TIME...