Word: suburbanitis
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...shopping center's clientele includes local office workers, corporate executives, college students, tourists and "typical suburban shoppers," according to Stephen B. Sigel, general manager of CambridgeSide...
...daughter of a physician and an international businessperson in Holmdel, N.J.--a suburban town of 10,000 that is nationally recognized for its high school--Szekeres did not appear to have any problems or be in need of money, according to friends...
...Delicate Balance opened on Broadway in 1966, four years after Virginia Woolf; it's a slimmer, more mysterious work. Tobias and Agnes are a middle-aged couple whose orderly suburban lives are shaken one evening by the arrival of their old friends Harry and Edna. The visitors have fled their home to escape some nameless fear. It soon appears that they plan to move...
...next afternoon, Blanchard went into his suburban Virginia backyard, put the muzzle of his grandfather's Smith & Wesson revolver to his head and pulled the trigger. Nothing happened. The gun had misfired. He could have taken that as a sign he was meant to live. But Blanchard pulled the trigger a second time. The gun went off. He left no suicide note. A Navy psychological autopsy concluded that "his style seemed consistent with someone whose duty it was to shoulder the burden and assume responsibility," even as that style clouded his ability to keep his situation in perspective. "The emotional...
Parent to Parent matches Cambridge residents with their disadvantaged neighbors, helping them adjust to life in a suburban residential setting...