Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dancers snaked through the back streets of Nassau, holding hands and twirling to drums and blaring horns mounted on trucks. To wildly different tunes, they all sang the same campaign lyrics: "All the way! All the way!" The same day, Premier Lynden O. Pindling, 38, strolled into a new suburban school that his government had built on neighboring Andros Island, and cast his vote. "I think a win is sure," he said as he popped into his car. Then he popped back out again and, in mock alarm, asked: "Don't you think so?" The crowd laughed and cheered...
...morning the white storekeepers would drive in from suburban Virginia and Maryland and cough on the tear gas and paw through the rubble looking for unbroken liquor bottles and missed jewelry. Most of them were uninsured and ruined. Few would return to the inner city, where their ancestors had made their fortunes in the small cut-rate credit furniture stores of 7th Street...
...daily operation, the Times's four downtown-news sections are trucked in mat form or transmitted by computer-typesetter to the suburban edition's new $7 000,000 plant in Costa Mesa. There, Managing Editor Ted Weegar, former assistant managing editor of the metropolitan edition, tears the pages apart and remakes them as he sees fit. Orange County stories are scattered throughout the entire newspaper. National and world news can be replaced on page 1 and in the rest of the first section, but only if an Orange County story deserves the prominence. No attempt will be made...
...archaeologist trained at the London School of Economics, she has been digging around in the ground for one purpose or another most of her adult life. The wife of Hugh Mencken, curator of European archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, she lives in a rambling clapboard house in suburban Boston, which is happily "overwhelmed" with hundreds of plants that she is readying...
...information is often as surprising as it is valuable. In one St. Louis suburban parish, a priest discovered that 60% of his flock still prefer devotions to the Virgin Mary - though some church reformers in recent years have endeavored to de-emphasize the importance of Mary in Catholic ritual. Of the same parishioners, 40% report ed that they went to confession only three or four times a year, and 39% declared that sermons in their church were generally uninteresting. In a Chicago parish, priests were ready to start a public-relations campaign to improve the image of their parochial school...