Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were a parent and had a son who came home from the Army and smoked marijuana, would you report him to the police or not?" By 42% to 40%, the answer was yes. On the other hand, in many categories there were big majorities against turning in the son: suburban residents, the under-30s, the college-educated, professional people, those earning over $10,000, westerners and Jews. Curiously, blacks would turn the son over to the police by a bigger margin than whites-42% to 38%, v. 42% to 41%, Those who would not turn in the son said that...
...threat of summer heat already lies heavy over Cairo and the rest of Gamal Abdel Nasser's Egypt. The city police have changed their blue flannel uniforms to summer whites. Jacaranda trees are blooming richly purple in suburban Heliopolis, remnants of the district's lost elegance. While the triple peaks of the pyramids of Giza shimmer on the horizon, stately feluccas sail down the Nile as silently as they have done for centuries. Overhead, hawks wheel lazily in gyres. The pace of the people in their flowing gallabia robes, never very fast, has grown a step or two slower...
...questions like: How many American women are working today and for what reason? What effect does a woman's having a career have on family life? What kind of women become highly motivated and why? Some studies currently underway are: woman's role (a survey of married women in suburban Boston); changes in female students' attitudes from freshman to senior year (a survey at Cornell); women in medicine (a study in Great Britain, France, and Scandinavia). The Institute communicates its research findings through publications, extensive correspondence with other educators, conferences, and counseling...
Afterwards, was it time to return to dispensing pills on his suburban rounds? Not a bit of it. "I'd rather be a conductor than a doctor any time," Bialoguski said. Whereupon he packed his reviews and his pocket-edition scores into a battered briefcase and set out in search...
During her six-year stay with Sokolsky, Ali also picked up an occasional assignment in front of the camera. Her open face and broad shoulders kept her from high fashion, but she was the suburban stereotype, one of those "young mamas" who reads Redbook and shops at Peck & Peck. She brought to modeling the same qualities that have made her a star: a combination of controlled, countrified chic and hip innocence that types her as that kind of smart, pretty, unapproachable girl who sat in the back row of the sophomore poetry seminar...