Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head shorter than his gangling charges, chubby and a bit owlish behind the plain frames of his glasses, Morgan Wootten looks more like a history teacher-which he is until afterschool practice begins-than the builder of a basketball dynasty. While still an undergraduate at Montgomery Junior College in suburban Washington, he was offered a coaching job at a Catholic boys' home. "I fell in love with coaching," Wootten says, "and changed my major from prelaw to education." Now 46, he has remained a high school coach despite a stream of offers from colleges-including Wake Forest and Maryland...
...early 19th century. Her observation is hardly less true today. Only now it must be added that anyone with business in Washington faces little risk of poverty. The great company town on the Potomac is booming. Humorist Russell Baker may garnish the truth when he writes of suburban lawns "green with money." And admittedly not everybody rushed to get at the $13,000 Chinese vases when the new Neiman-Marcus store opened last November. But by the most telling measure?family income?Washington has fattened into the most affluent metropolis in the country...
...died in 1970 at the age of 80, he left $21 million to his third wife, Helen, a former Miami country club hostess who had married him 18 years earlier. Thereafter, the 58-year-old widow became a recluse, living in a stone mansion on seven wooded acres in suburban Glenview. She consulted a fortuneteller by phone almost daily and produced a drawerful of psychic writings while in a trance-like state. Suspicious of most people, Mrs. Brach preferred the companionship of her nine thoroughbred horses and three mongrel dogs. She seemed close to only one person: Jack Matlick...
...pointedly suggests the guarded and lonely aspects of both the man's profession and character. The settings include the nondescript corridors and offices of "the firm," interiors of London gentlemen's clubs, a richly cluttered bookshop and the drab comforts of Castle's semidetached house in suburban Berkhamsted. It is the town where Greene himself grew up, a schoolteacher's son so bored that he played Russian roulette with his brother's revolver...
Years later in London, Castle finds himself privy to "Uncle Remus," a secret plan whereby the U.S., Great Britain, France and West Germany would aid South Africa in suppressing any revolution by the black majority. In a classic bit of Greenery, Castle and Sarah play suburban dinner hosts to their former hunter, Cornelius Muller, a high South African security official and liaison for Uncle Remus. Muller is a courteous, unflappable professional who leads Castle to recall the warning of an old South African friend: "Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel, our worst enemies...