Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, acting on a tip, immigration agents raided Ramona's Mexican Food Products Company, a food processing firm in suburban Los Angeles. According to federal officials, Ramona's is "an indiscriminate employer of illegal aliens." Five times in the last four years the company had been raided, and each time agents had turned up illegal aliens. They were not disappointed the sixth time. After half a dozen immigration men burst through the door, the plant's largely female work force shrieked and started scattering. Eventually, 36 of them were cornered, most of them in the women...
...young Forster eased from the suburban middle-class of his childhood into the academic world of Cambridge where he chose liberalism for his politics and writing for his profession. In the first two decades of this century, his stories and novels achieved a narrow critical appreciation, and finally in 1924, with the publication of A Passage to India, Forster won fame and commercial success. His novels are wry and mannered, reflecting British culture from the inside out, compassionate and ironic. And the best of them are among the best of a great period in the English novel...
Maurice was scandalized, horrified. He was shocked to the bottom of his suburban soul, and exclaimed...
...this is the lesson of Maurice. Salvation can only be won through a personal involvement that cares nothing for the unthinking yellow-grey morality of suburban conformity. And in ways, that is the lesson of all Forster's moral philosophy. In 1939, he wrote an essay called What I Believe, and what he believed in was Personal Relations. He had an individualist's fear of drowning in the teeming masses. So the solution was to be Personal, individual to individual, beyond politics, beyond class, beyond morality. That is what he meant when he wrote...
...Conditions in the schools have deteriorated so alarmingly that a new integration plan will not be easy to put into effect. While black militants terrorize the remaining whites in the Detroit schools, the Ku Klux Klan has been gathering recruits in the suburbs. Last spring a suburban high school principal was tarred and feathered by hooded Klansmen after he organized a two-day human relations program for blacks and whites. Yet any integration plan, if it is to succeed, must include the suburbs, as both the N.A.A.C.P. and the Citizens' Committee have emphasized. If full-scale integration is ordered...