Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name was Anthony Blake, good AngloSaxon name from a good Anglo-Saxon background in the heart of suburban America. He enlisted out of high school, because he had never been a bright boy and his high school counselor thought it best that he get his military service out of the way. No one knows whether the counselor will attend the funeral. They do know Anthony was a good boy, if a little careless behind the wheel of a car, and so the lamentations have begun in the homes of Anthony's friends and family...
...They are copious. Henri Matisse was born 100 years ago into the family of a grain merchant. He took up the study of law and turned seriously to painting only when he was 22. He married, had three children and emphasized to interviewers that he lived an entirely ordinary, suburban life. Outwardly he was reserved, cautious, methodical-in style of life the lawyer still. He could be diffident to the point of anguish about a work in progress. Despite the anguish, how he did work: twelve hours a day nearly every day for 60 years...
...nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous element in the U.S. population. According to U.S. Census Bureau estimates, in 1970 suburban dwellers will number more than 71 million, taking a big lead over those inhabiting central cities (59 million) and passing the citizenry outside metropolitan areas (about 71 million...
...only important decision the Democratic voters rendered. His running mate for Lieutenant Governor will be Basil A. Paterson, 44, a highly regarded state senator and the first black to run for so high a state office on a major party ticket. Though challenged by a white town supervisor from suburban Long Island, Paterson ran far better than Goldberg, winning 69% of the vote. In a four-man contest for the U.S. Senate nomination to oppose Republican Incumbent Charles Goodell, an expensive barrage of polished television advertising turned obscurity into victory for Westchester Representative Richard Ottinger. Theodore Sorensen, once John Kennedy...
...first, like the first time he ran away from his home in suburban...