Word: suburbanitis
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...even required to win converts and influence agendas. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum conducts seminars in Georgia to challenge that state's new OBE programs, and not incidentally to publicize the Forum's wider agenda. Opponents of OBE have managed to galvanize concern to the point that parents in suburban Atlanta stick leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history of the U.S. from what they call...
Just having tickets has not been enough to get audiences into Harold Prince's spectacular, 71-actor, $6.5 million staging of Show Boat at the opulent new North York Performing Arts Centre in suburban Toronto. It has also been necessary to pass in front of black hecklers shouting insults and waving placards reading SHOW BOAT SPREADS LIES AND HATE and SHOW BOAT = CULTURAL GENOCIDE. The protest, under police guard, has not deterred many ticket holders but may have had a striking impact on potential sales: inside the theater, the only black faces readily apparent belong to ushers. As often happens...
...play follows the lives of art historian Heidi Holland and her friends, as they journey from high school in suburban Chicago to adulthood. Wasserstein said that initially she "thought it was going to be just Heidi's story," but it became the story of a generation...
...Friday-night mixer, held in the bare, harshly lighted Town and Country Room of the convention's suburban hotel, a desultory troupe of 750 mostly middle-aged guests drank beer and mineral water -- a far cry from previous years, when you could count on 5,000 former and current flyers to show up. Active-duty personnel stayed away because an ominous Pacific Fleet edict had warned that no officer could attend in uniform or join in public discussions, and the 20-odd young pilots who did appear were far outnumbered by the media and seemed as fearful as they were...
...that the same old overpriced travel agency, the same old contraceptive dispensary and the same dusty books on the $1 rack at Harvard University Press are now part of The Shops at Harvard Yard. The renovation project has made the Holyoke Arcade less alienating to the shopper and the suburban daytripper, and infinitely more alienating to the countercultural mindtripper...