Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this suggests a picture of new American population patterns emerging in the next decade or so. The rural population, which is diminishing, is not likely to be replaced by big-city or suburban dropouts in search of a better life. The cities will become increasingly the habitat of singles, childless couples, blacks and the other nonwhite minorities. "Manhattan may be the prototype city of the future-for either the poor or the rich," says Rakove...
State Farm Insurance Man Tom Martin, a South Evanstonian, says: "We don't have suburban problems here. We have big-city problems." They do: race, rising crime rates (burglaries up from 594 in 1969 to 842 last year), low-income housing, downtown business stagnation, taxes, traffic, student unrest at Northwestern (which has a 21-year-old black woman as student body president). Evanston's acting city manager, Edward Martin, 27, finds the scene far from dismal. "We have all the problems of a major city," he says, "but on a manageable level. I feel...
EVEN its defenders admit that El Monte is an eyesore, a blur of suburban sprawl 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Its boundaries meander without obvious aim or purpose. Tiny houses, usually stucco and rarely worth more than $30,000, are jumbled together with tacky businesses along its dismal streets. Some 70,000 people call it home, but only a city father could love it. "This is a lower-middle-class workingman's community," says City Administrator Kenneth Bolts. Unnecessarily, he adds: "We will never be a Beverly Hills...
...William Hart, 45, who is black. "In that sense we are not the city. But we are just a few bricks removed from it." For many of the blacks, East Orange has been the first step out from the city, from Newark or New York, a reach for a suburban hinterland of open space and green grass and fresh air. Once it was that for wealthy whites. Long before World War II, it was a gracious, self-contained suburb with some mansions that verged on the palatial, imposing apartment buildings, a Baptist seminary and Upsala College...
...plaint became public in January, when New York magazine published excerpts from Amen: The Diary of Rabbi Martin Siegel (edited by Mel Ziegler: World: $6.95), a book detailing nearly ten months of Siegel's life as rabbi of Temple Sinai in suburban Lawrence, N.Y. The article, which assailed the materialism and shallow religious loyalties of Siegel's congregation, provoked angry reactions throughout the New York area. The book is due to reach the bookstores this month and should incite more. It is a depressing portrait of a U.S. Jewish congregation and its rabbi...