Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden awareness is another indication of the rising interest in the drive for women's rights, which in its current phase began in 1963, when Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, a book exposing the vacuity of many suburban housewives' lives. In 1966, she founded the National Organization for Women (NOW), whose goals have now been largely adopted by the movement. Today it is the single largest group within the movement, with 5,000 members...
...past 15 years has been toward bigger-and better-equipped-homes and apartments. Now the nation's housing crisis has thrown that movement into reverse. Builders are turning again to the construction of small, stripped-down dwellings. The result is a reappearance of what social critics call suburban "ticky-tacky." Much of it is almost as cramped, though perhaps not quite as ugly as the postwar bungalows that earned developers considerable derision in the 1950s...
...lies about America but Graham's unabashed earnestness. Similarly Meyer's new film reveals his obstinate faith in an ethic no more applicable today than tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. If all along the fire-breathing amazons of his earlier films have wanted the kind of suburban respectability Meyer poses as an ideal, then we have been badly mislead. Good pornography, and there is such a thing as good pornography, will feel the loss...
...salesman who founded the firm in 1961, built it into the third biggest independent telephone utility with 1.5 million outlets in 42 states, Canada and five Caribbean countries, assets of $1 billion; when a bomb exploded in his car as he started back to the office after lunch; in suburban St. Louis...
...merchants' dream of Haryard Square is of a "quaint, pleasant place to shop, where anyone can feel comfortable." One that would once more attract "the suburban housewives" and "the little insurance girls and secretaries from Boston" who used to shop in the Square, but don't now because the dirty panhandlers and the violence make them feel uptight...