Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown a streak of lively malice toward such suburban intellectuals...
...Walter Stuempfig has earned a niche for himself as one of the nation's foremost "romantic" painters (TIME, Dec. 12, 1949). The subject of much of his romanticism: the streets and suburban landscapes of his native Pennsylvania. Last week the prize exhibit of Stuempfig's latest Manhattan show was a big, misty view of a town he has been painting for two decades...
...title story is a bucketful of political satire hauled up from the deep old Orwell. Here, in a prison barracks in suburban New York, on a black night somewhere this side of 1984, sits a U.S. liberal jailed by the Russian conquerors, and remembers how indifferent she was to a poor, underfed little girl back in grammar school ; the girl has grown up to be Comrade Hilda Kantrowitz, the public prosecutor...
...well. The well-one of scores drilled within two years-would be more evidence that the area, which had once produced gas but was thought to have been sucked dry, was coming back to life with a rush. From the wells, enough gas is flowing to start supplying suburban Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. East Coasters began to hope that there might be a big new gas supply close to home...
...Eats Before I Eat." Magsaysay got the job. He moved the Defense Department out of downtown Manila to suburban Camp Murphy, to get it away from the pressures of politicians. Trained to the simple life (he doesn't drink or smoke, and has never succumbed to the Filipino weakness for gambling), he picked out a modest, one-story cottage at the camp for himself, Luz and their three children. He combed the army for bumbling or corrupt officers, promoted the good ones, and put a revitalized force into the field, with one mission: "Kill Huks...