Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...optional" schools in mixed neighborhoods, it has encouraged whites to escape integration. While the state government has provided funds for the transportation of pupils in the suburbs, until recently it has offered no aid for busing in the city. In addition, its formula for aiding schools penalizes poor blacks; suburban communities are able to spend more on their schools while paying a lower tax rate. Despite this bill of particulars Roth wondered if it might be beside the point. "It is unfortunate that we cannot deal with public school segregation on a no-fault basis, for if racial segregation...
...Daddy always goes to the office, never the factory. Books and magazines similarly lack working class references. What few references exist are usually derogatory. ("Greasers" are Neanderthals and "dumb Polacks" have replaced "coons" as the butt of jokes). An uninitiated observer would think that the American people are either suburban white professionals or inner-city blacks...
Pamela Batchelor, a June high school graduate in suburban Mountain Lakes, N.J., speaks for a growing number of U.S. students. Pam will spend the fall backpacking in Europe. As U.S. colleges open this autumn with a record enrollment of more than 8,000,000, several thousand young people with the brains to get in and the money for tuition will be missing. They are rebelling at the very idea of attending college at all-at least, as they see it, until they can figure out what the courses have to do with their own feelings and aims. Even among...
...tiny 11¾? annual dividend on each share provides Hefner with about $800,000 a year to go with his salary of $303,847. As chairman, president, editor and publisher, he has another $372,924 tucked away in his profit-sharing account. In addition, his mansions in Chicago and suburban Los Angeles are owned by the corporation and used for "promotional activities...
...Suburban Lady Macbeth." In the earlier, social plays, Ibsen's drama was the drama of contemporary issues: the characters are living ideas. Dr. Stock-mann, the idealist who heroically fights to improve his community in An Enemy of the People, reappears in The Wild Duck as Gregers Werle, a pre-Freudian busybody who demonstrates that helping people face their problems is often just a bland way of destroying them. Similarly, in Hedda Gabler, Nora, the relatively innocent victim of male chauvinism in A Doll's House, is re-examined as Hedda, a modern woman whose frustrated need...