Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native of Elkins Park, Pa. . . . I had an understandably keen interest in the Wright-designed synagogue [TIME, May 31] that is planned for my quiet suburban community. Esthetically I am inexperienced, but somehow I feel that Mr. Wright's inspiration is about as appropriate to its proposed location as Connie Mack Stadium is to suburban Singapore...
After still another exacting session that day-a total of 3½ hours of conducting during which he never once seemed tired-the maestro returned to his suburban Riverdale home. This week Arturo Toscanini is flying to Italy. Many musicians who know him were ready to bet last week that the maestro's conducting days were far from over...
...writers may find it nearly impossible to discover a comedy situation that has not already been fully explored and endlessly developed by rival husband & wife teams. The big-family family field is monopolized by Mamma, Life with Father and The Goldbergs. The young parents' division (both urban and suburban) is covered by Make Room for Daddy and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. Cox and Actress Benoit can never hope to equal the eager smooching of Barry Nelson and Joan Caulfield (My Favorite Husband), the pratfalls of Joan Davis and Jim Backus (I Married Joan), or the downright silliness...
...little to respect in fellow reviewers. Drama critics, he wrote, can be divided into two groups: "The boozed eulogists at one extreme, at the other the starved, fasting mockers. They are drawn from the long and once respectable ranks of the nearly brilliant and they address themselves . . . to the suburban fortresses of semi-culture...
...unknown are having trouble clearing their showroom floors. Detroit, which has little bootlegging, has lost 30 dealers in the last year. Illinois, with strict laws against bootlegging, lost 125 in 1953. In Washington recently, 70 have gone under; in Oklahoma, 150; in Kansas, 78; on New York's suburban Long Island, 20. Many others are operating in the red, and overall first-quarter profits are down to a bare .8%, v. 4.3% last year. Said one disgusted Los Angeles dealer: "You can put your money in a savings account and get more than that...