Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is not based on statistics, but merely on my impressions," Peterson told the CRIMSON. "But we now have to be terribly hard on people with good grades from the good suburban high schools-good, solid clean-nosed kids who really don't have enough else going for them...
...when he had scraped together $250,000 from 20 private investors could he and his four partners launch Creative Child Care, a night-and-day care center for affluent children. "You can call it Head Start for the Rich," remarks Benowitz. His new center will open this week in suburban Atlanta, with nurses on duty around the clock. The center is aimed at clubwomen who might want to drop off Junior a few mornings a week, sport-minded couples who want to get away for a weekend of skiing, or the sociable set given to late-night parties...
Fuck the celebrities, though, for inside the suburban elegance of the plastic-and-turquoise theatre, the team was already whooping it up. Admittedly, the hors d'oeuvres weren't much more than pasteboard decorations, but then the champagne had already begun to compensate for that. Around the refreshment counter, which had been entirely given over to dispensing the stuff-despite the disappointment of one girl who demanded to know "Where you can get a candy bar around there?"-the crowd was packed tighter than a bunch of high school girls trying to extract autographs from Bobby Orr. And that...
...population of that country at 120 "gooks, none of them Communist thanks to American perseverance and technological know-how." Nixon announces that the resources saved by the unexpected withdrawal will be used to rebuild America's cities "somewhere in Alaska, where they won't get in the way of suburban life...
Liberalized adoption laws are also making it possible for single and divorced women to have children and to set up housekeeping without the necessity of a father. Ruth Taylor, a secretary at a hospital in suburban Warrensville township, near Cleveland, was divorced shortly after her daughter, Kelley, was born three years ago. Because she did not want the girl to grow up as an only child, she adopted a little boy who was listed as a "slow learner" by the agency (there was a three-year waiting list for normal Caucasian children). But in the year that...