Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Only people like us," I began, "students, politicos, suburban liberals who aren't caught up in busing, abortion, Israel and imagined economic catastrophe, have the mental energy to worry about your South American friends. Most people have all they can do to think about next week's paycheck. They don't want to hear from Brazil," I said. "And the Brazilians don't vote in America...
...macabre fantasy, conceived by Playwright Paddy Chayefsky for the 1971 black humor film The Hospital, has been overshadowed by reality. Last week investigators were virtually convinced that many of the two dozen puzzling deaths at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., last summer and at a small suburban New Jersey hospital a decade ago had actually been murders committed by members of the hospital staffs. The two cases...
...year-old New Jersey case was reopened in part as a result of the publicity over the Michigan deaths. Over a ten-month period, starting in December 1965, at least 13 patients died mysteriously at Riverdell Hospital in suburban Oradell, less than an hour's drive from Manhattan. Most of them had undergone surgery but seemed well on the road to recovery...
...November Guizar went on a two-week minority recruiting trip for the University. He termed it "a success," but added that "Chicano recruitment should not mean just going to the suburban high schools and talking to upper class Chicanos. I'd like to see them get out to Roosevelt High in Fresno, where people are who never thought of going to Harvard...
...ruling that jury trials be held came after Special Juvenile Judge Joseph Ray, hearing a case without a jury, convicted a white suburban couple, Mr. and Mrs. Emmitt Durham, and sentenced them to a year in jail for not allowing their son Alfred, 12, to be bused to a Louisville school. The Durhams are appealing the verdict to a circuit court and demanding a trial by jury...