Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capital, where salaries for such work often climb to six figures, Dita Beard was virtually unknown; she earned only $30,000 and lived in a modest house in nearby Arlington, Va. Important lobbyists entertain in baronial houses, charter airplanes, give lavish cocktail parties. Dita Beard lived more like a suburban schoolteacher. Once a year, in ITT's name, she gave a small Christmas cocktail party for 30 or 40 people. Curiously, the Senate antitrust subcommittee, which an ITT lobbyist would certainly try to influence, had never heard...
Bizarre Proposal. As he explained to newsmen that he intended to take a job as a vice president with Dura Steel Products of suburban Los Angeles, Blue found it hard to keep a straight face. "Come on, guys," he pleaded at one point, "I'm supposed to be serious." He then listed the counterproposals he had made to Finley during the bargaining: he had offered to play for $50,000 with a retroactive bonus agreement; or on a long-range contract basis with assured increase; or if Finley would allow him to become a free agent...
JOHN H. UPDIKE '54 hopped back to Cambridge one cold day in December from his Ipswich home! With long legs and arms that flopped around with nonchalant grace, he scaled the Crimson steps looking like a suburban squire should, work-booted, wearing nondescript dungarees and a good sweater gone bad. With eyes looking out from a face somewhere between a hawk's and a gnome's, he glanced at the fading pictures of fading editors on our tack-marked cork bulletin board, and asked the photographer. "How did you get those black borders on them?" Mechanical details and competence...
...anew: in Shaw's drawing-room heroines, Laurentian sensualists, Brett Ashleys, flappers, women who smoked and drank and swore and brushed their teeth with last night's Scotch, got divorced or did not bother to get married at all, wore pants, and perhaps in the mellow suburban '50s, lived to grow old as Auntie Mame...
...getting jobs." World War II made Rosie the Riveter a figure of folklore, and many women never before in the work force found that they liked the independence gained by working. The postwar reaction was the "togetherness" syndrome of the Eisenhower era, a doomed attempt to confer on suburban motherhood something of the esteem that pioneer women once enjoyed. From the affluent housewife's suicidal despair in J.D. Salinger's "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," it was not far to The Feminine Mystique...