Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Suburban Outflow. By whatever name, what is happening in Virginia is enough to unstatus the quo from Accomac to Yorktown. Not only did the assembly approve a record two-year budget of $3.13 billion, up 27.5% from 1966-68; it also gave Godwin authority to borrow $81 million of it. If voters approve in a November referendum, Virginia for the first time this century will float a general obligation-bond issue, a routine fiscal expedient long employed by all but a scattering of states...
...office, Virginia's financially starved educational system ranked 38th nationally in dollars spent per pupil, not to mention the illiteracy rate and median school years completed. It ranked dead last among ten Southern states in school expenditures as a percentage of personal income. Yet, thanks largely to the suburban outflow of well-to-do Washingtonians, Virginia's voters today are the wealthiest citizens in the entire South...
...Jones HI, the middle-class Detroit Negro who was the first defector to arrive. A Swedish resident since January 1967, Jones had been given an apartment in suburban Stockholm, found work for himself as a dancing teacher and for his German-born wife as a secretary, and fathered a son. Yet last week Jones let it be known that he had had his fill of Sweden. Complaining that "the Swedes have a natural prejudice against black people," he presented himself to the American embassy in Stockholm and asked for transportation back to his unit in West Germany, where he faced...
...very unsettling for the quiet, fastidious musician, who rises by 5 a.m. every day to begin working at an upright piano in his suburban Paris apartment. The son of a Marseille postal inspector, he learned piano and violin from his father, entered the Marseille Conservatory at ten, and soon seemed headed for the life of a concert pianist. Instead, he veered off into a jazz career at 17, eventually became interested in the wider instrumental palette and richer sonorities of pop arranging. Established though he was in the profession, he remained a blank to the public, since French disk jockeys...
...professionalism. Academic degrees simply do not measure a man's capacity to evaluate ghetto problems and communicate them to students, lrate ghetto parents seeking control of public schools have long argued that despite fourth-grade educations, they have a better understanding of the needs of ghetto children than any suburban-raised white Ph.D. Harvard owes its developing social scientists the broader perspective which only black instruction can provide. As the League itself pointed out, not every educated black retains this all-important sense for the culture of black Americans, but in formulating its 17 name list, the League demonstrated...