Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...important thing to remember about punk besides what it has thrived in diametric opposition to, is where it comes from. "Punks" like Ricky and the Invaders had to confront a lot of things that aren't easily found on manicured suburban lawns...
Willie also predicted that suburban, as well as urban, school systems would be integrated on both racial and social grounds...
...city led to scholarships and a Biblical Studies degree at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. After that, Daugherty went on to graduate school in Richmond, Virginia, and to three years of Presbyterian Church missionary work in Brazil. In the early '60s Daugherty directed religious education programs in suburban churches around Washington, D.C., while her husband earned a Ph.D. in political science...
Spinks went on to display his fireworks at the Las Vegas Hilton the other night. DiNicola received his discharge, was accepted to Harvard, and now the Lowell House junior only fights an occasional bout at suburban clubs...
That left me incredulous. Such a mindset only "prepares" one to unquestioningly take up the work of the multinational corporation--with no social responsibility. Such an attitude allows you to practice law with no concern for justice, or to pay your taxes and mow your suburban lawn with no concern for your life as part of a community. The Harvard that educated social and political reformers like Adams, Thoreau, FDR and Nader is getting its old veins clogged with rampant pre-professionalism. Harvard itself is not beyond reform; we all know our lives and educations here could be better...