Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence is not confined to prep schools. I had always hated the socialite, tennis-playing atmosphere of my suburban town, and I fled to prep school as a more, not less, diverse place...
...swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence is not confined to prep schools. I had always hated the socialite, tennis-playing atmosphere of my suburban town, and I fled to prep school as a more, not less, diverse place...
...departure came as too much of a surprise to much of Washington. "Had the story got East Coast play," says Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson, "it would undoubtedly have had more impact." Chandler's growing presence in the Greater New York area newspaper market (small dailies in suburban Stamford and Greenwich, as well as Newsday and, now, the Courant) is his way of breaking into the New York-Washington news axis. Chandler says it is merely good business. Yet during the past year he has taken out full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post...
Donovan was relaxing in his swimming pool at New York City's suburban Sands Point when a telephone call from Jimmy Carter caused him to amend his portfolio. Donovan's new post: Senior Adviser at the White House, charged with providing "substantive advice on the full range of matters before the President...
...figure of Dracula himself, not the book, the play, or the movies, that has endured. If Superman is the fantasy figure of sandy-haired, scrawny, neo-Nazi Kansas farmboys, then Dracula is for the urban or suburban adolescent: chubby, acne-ridden, excrutiatingly lonely, the boy with nothing to do after school but tear the limbs off Barbie dolls and masturbate. Girls laugh at him, or, worse yet, ignore him altogether...