Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experience of the California housewife has become increasingly common as hospitals in growing numbers turn to outpatient (involving no overnight stay) surgery. That procedure, designed to cope with rising costs and the great demand for beds, was pioneered by the 258-bed Melrose-Wakefield Hospital in suburban Wakefield, Mass., which started its surgical "day care" program in 1969. Since then, outpatient surgery has become available in a growing number of hospitals around the country. In the greater Detroit area, for example, at least eight hospitals provide the service; eight more are planning to initiate it. Says Dr. Paul Lahti...
...novel is a rambling series of anecdotes about Danny's travels. He starts off in an incredibly suburban vision of Houston as a student at Rice University: He skids through school with honors, reading and writing when he good and wants to, and playing badminton with neighborhood rich folk. He impulsively marries a long-legged blonde he though he had saved from a crazed bisexual professor at an Austin party. The blonde is, in fact, dumb and the professor rather decent. With his new wife and his first novel advance money, he emigrates to San Francisco, loses his wife...
ALMOST all of them are white, middle class and solid. Usually, they are married and own $35,000 to $45,000 houses in stable, often suburban neighborhoods. They tend to avoid taking public stands on political issues and rarely become involved in social causes. Most wear their hair short, dress neatly in business suits and are physically trim. They are the special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and there are now 8,500 of them. Generally conservative, FBI agents believe in a strict adherence to bureau rules...
...Jacksonville, Fla., and on the waters of the Mediterranean, Navy Lieutenant (j.g.) David Eisenhower, 25, will return to Washington next month to seek his fortune in civilian life-though not without a little help from his friends. Waiting for him will be a $110,000 brick rambler in suburban Bethesda, Md., picked out by his wife Julie and her mother Pat Nixon but bought by C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's businessman pal. The Eisenhowers will pay an undisclosed amount of rent, thus allowing Bebe, who has made millions in real estate and other ventures, to write off some...
THOMPSON maintains that this is partly because St. Peter's is a city church. Episcopal churches do not draw their members from any strict geographical boundries, and city churches lose their members to suburban churches. But part of the reason that this once-bustling church now echoes with the silence of disuse may be because the functions of churches are being taken up elsewhere...