Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first the holdup in a suburban Boston bank seemed commonplace enough. Early one morning last week, a woman and two men robbed the Brighton branch office of the State Street Bank and Trust Co. of $26,000, spraying the outside of the bank with gunfire as they fled. During the escape, an accomplice who was waiting across the street gunned down Boston Patrolman Walter A. Schroeder, who died 24 hours later. However violent, the incident would probably have attracted little attention outside of Boston if the police had not produced some startling evidence...
Unlikely Zealot. For the past two years, the Fox has been the scourge of those he considers polluters in Illinois' Kane County, west of Chicago. He has plugged offending sewers, capped spewing chimneys, left ripe skunks on the suburban doorsteps of company executives. At the scene of every caper, he leaves a note explaining that the particular victim is getting back a bit of his own for defiling the environment...
...discusses the oppression of women, noting the chauvinist ideas of Dr. Benjamin Spock. The suburban American woman, Slater says, is imprisoned in the emotional and intellectual poverty of the housewife's role...
...STATUS of the suburban housewife, Slater is brilliant. When the society demands-and Dr. Spock declares-that the mother become the primary child-rearing instrument, her sexuality must be muted. The American housewife, Slater writes, has become thoroughly desexualized. In most societies, a woman does not become full-fledged sexual being until she is married. In America, the erotic standard is based upon mindless nymphets and (does the term betray the childlessness of our preoccupations?) glossy playmates...
Meanwhile, the U.S. birth rate has been declining. This fall, for the first time since 1946, elementary school enrollment is expected to decrease slightly, by about 100,000 pupils. That is enough to make some school districts cut back their hiring. In addition, school boards from Dayton to suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., have had difficulty getting their school levies past the voters...