Word: suburbanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apparition strode through a back door of the supermarket. The woman ran for a telephone and called the police. The masked figure had been robbing suburban Los Angeles supermarkets for ten months, had gotten away with more than $50,000. Anywhere else a man in a space suit would have attracted attention; but in Southern California eccentrics were so common that supermarket clerks refused, until too late, to get excited at the appearance of a Man from Mars. But this time the police arrived just as the apparition was leaving the store, clutching $13,675 in a canvas bank...
This week the magazine gave in to its own sales talk, and moved from a drab San Francisco office building to a new, $500,000 ranch-house building in suburban Menlo Park, with glass partitions, barbecue pits, foot-thick adobe walls, floors of Indian-made tile, beams, acres of gardens. The staff, who mostly moved with it, prepared to welcome 10,000 friends at an open house that included a barbecue in their plant's radiant-heated patio...
...German baroness once told Poet William Carlos Williams that what he needed to make him great "was to contract syphilis from her and so free my mind for serious art." Williams, a busy physician in suburban Rutherford, N.J., turned the invitation down; he had only a doctor's interest in the disease. In 40 years of practice, he was never able to free his mind entirely for "serious art." But between calls (1,500,000 of them, he estimates), he did somehow manage to produce 34 uneven books of verse and prose that have given him a reputation...
Author Pritchett's new novel, Mr. Beluncle, is in his best short-story grain. He has a mischievous eye for suburban pomposity, he invents delightfully loony characters, he writes with crisp wit. The opening 50 pages weave a fine picture of "mind-sharpening, heart-deadening warfare" between a middle-aged husband and wife. But then something goes wrong...
Eight hours later, 35 fire companies and 475 firemen got the blasts and fires under control. For five blocks around, suburban Brighton was a shambles. Forty-four houses were demolished or badly damaged, 24 people injured, and three, including Mary Anne Maas and her young brother, were killed...