Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING IN THE GARDEN is like a gin and tonic when you're expecting martinis: weaker, heavier, and maybe just a trifle too bitter to be really intoxicating. In adapting the play by the British Giles Cooper, Edward Albee has unfortunately burdened an amusing premise--that a group of suburban ladies should take up part-time prostitution--with all the weight of a major statement on the Decline of the American Empire. Everything in the Garden is basically an entertainingly sardonic drawing room comedy and Albee should have treated it as such...
...words that Malvina L Reynolds used in her celebrated 1964 folk song* to describe her view of the standardized world of suburbia's "little boxes on the hillside" seemed to assume new relevance. Two reports commissioned by the Federal Government-one on urban and the other on suburban problems-indicated that suburbia is hardly a refuge for those seeking escape from the blight of U.S. cities. The problems that have all but consumed many urban areas-the crime waves, the racial ghettos, the inadequate schools, the intermittent near collapse of essential services and the harshness of life-have been...
...nonwhites who are also fleeing the cities-and bringing all their problems with them. But the black move to suburbia is much slower. Though the number of blacks living in the suburbs is expected to grow from 2.8 million in 1960 to 6.8 million in 1985, the white suburban population will grow from 52 million to 106 million. Already the suburbs lead the cities in population, 66 million to 59 million...
...President's Task Force on Suburban Problems made a separate but parallel report, with the aid of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. In suburbia, it says, "the dullness of existence is acutely felt by many older suburbanites and is often tragically reflected in the behavior of their children. Suburban vandalism, drug offenses and larceny by the young are on the rise." The report makes clear that it is no longer justified, if it ever was, to think of suburbia only as a split-level heaven with neat picket fences. In fact, the term suburbia has become...
...make an impact on the problems of urbs and suburbs. The omens are not promising, particularly in the area of increased cooperation between the two in seeking improvement. A case in point: for more than a year, the National Commission on Urban Problems and the Task Force on Suburban Problems covered ground that was often identical; yet neither seemed to know what the other was doing...