Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doorknobs, in plastic bags, or pushed through a mail slot in the door. But in the mailbox itself, only mail with U.S. postage is legal. Without a monopoly, the service fears being stuck with costly deliveries to remote areas, while the more easily handled and economical urban and suburban routes are snatched up by private deliverers. Planned hikes in postal rates may increase pressures for private service, but a pending House bill to open first-class mail delivery to free enterprise has practically no chance of early passage. Nor do the courts find the present protectionism unconstitutional. Federal judges have...
...late June, the feuding became more vicious still. Another organizer who also favored Hoffa was beaten unmercifully in the parking lot of a suburban restaurant. President Johnson ruled that union officials should not go out alone. Then, on July 10, Dick Fitzsimmons was having a drink with friends at Nemo's Bar on Michigan Avenue, not far from the local's headquarters, when his Lincoln Continental was blown to smithereens outside in the street...
...coyotes making off with dogs or cats. One Brentwood Hills matron lost three cats in 18 months; a Briarcliff public relations man reports losing a treasured Persian cat when a coyote "trotted right up to our front lawn and casually carried it off." Says Charles Rosenberg, a stockbroker in suburban Sherman Oaks: "At 10:30 at night, it is always the same thing: the howling begins, then the bloodcurdling screams, then silence...
...date, he has not acted any differently than Sargent would have when faced with matters of substance. In fact, he has often goofed in ways Sargent never would have thought of. His basic problem, aside from a lack of imagination and courage, is that like many other liberal suburban pols, he does not understand politics very well. He has, for instance, put a stop to the nonsense of issuing low registration number plates to friends of the administrators, a long and revered practice in Massachusetts. He said the practice was silly, imperial, and a waste of his time...
...1950s stereotype, so button-down-collared that it hurts to read about it. It is central to his intent in writing CIA Diary that Agee tells us that he was one of the countless college graduates that were "Made in America" all stamped out of the same white, suburban liberal mold. This background is important to Agee not only because he wants to tell us what he did as a CIA agent in Latin America; he also wants us to understand why he did it and to agree with him that trees grown on American soil must produce rotten fruit...