Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surprising that you do not suggest a correlation between the riots and the much-discussed dissatisfactions of youth with the soullessness of a materialistic culture. I wonder if these riots are entirely the fruit of discrimination, if these Negroes are indeed those who dream of job and suburban serenity. It seems to me, rather, that the rioters share the bored frustration and inarticulate revulsion against society that erupts in riots of young whites on vacation or in orgies of vandalism by elite young partygoers-or in the less sensational but more disturbing apathy of many of my fellow college students...
...some boys, the new rule smacked of dirty pool, while others have made the best of the matter, have taken up the caps. For most parents, however, the regulation has provided an unexpected bonanza. "It's a blessing," says one happy suburban Washington mother. "My boy tried out a cap and then decided to cut his hair...
...GUIDE FOR THE MARRIED MAN. Walter Matthau, as a suburban husband looking for greener grasses and keener lasses, proves that the person who plays the common man must be an uncommon actor...
...Presbyterian Church's membership is largely white, suburban, middle class to affluent, well-educated, Republican, establishment-minded and property-conscious. It includes racists, militarists, Birchers, and philanderers; it includes supporters of black power, pacifists and peace workers, philanthropists, and celibates...
...result, there are hippies of every stripe: city and suburban hippies, who can do their thing only in urban environments; beach hippies and mountain hippies, Indian hippies and neoPolynesian hippies, desert hippies and river hippies, musical and poetical and light and sound hippies, all doing their thing as they see it to be done, some alone and some in "tribes" of like-minded thing-doers...