Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dang also finds suburban life in Morristown, N.J., congenial. "The schools are good, and last week my boy went out with friends and came home with five pounds of fish...
Betty Ford still refers to it as "the time when the roof caved in"-the time when an unassuming Middle American political family suddenly had to move from a modest four-bedroom suburban Virginia home into the mansion at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. "I really didn't want to come here," the First Lady told TIME Washington Correspondent Bonnie Angelo in the White House last week. "I was afraid because of the social demands, and I didn't think of it as a meaningful position for me." Adds her daughter Susan: "At first the idea of the presidency scared...
...mass transit, welfare, defense or anything else: it has in effect already been committed to highways. The Department of Transportation's budget projections through 1981 call for federal spending of about $2.2 billion a year-roughly the same amount provided by the trust fund today -to maintain rural, suburban and urban roads and make them safer. Moreover, under Ford's plan, mass-transit funds that used to come from the highway trust would now come out of general revenues, where they would be at a competitive disadvantage with roads. "Sure, we need more mass transit," sums...
...lunar module theory of the modern stadium: the physical analog to the wide franchises and slick operations of the new corporate baseball. This is a neighborhood park--no gargantuan concrete egg laid in the center of a vast parkingscape, slabs for seats, plastic astrograss, and conveniently adjacent to the suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe with a sad history--a lot of Red Sox clubs winning hearts and losing still; heros now dead or in the insurance business. Fenway is outmoded and wonderful, decaying like baseball itself is decaying: slowly shedding off its crowds, its glamour...
...book never stands still for a moment. Story lines constantly interweave; historical figures become part of fictional events and fictional characters participate in real history. In ways both fantastic and poetically convincing, the members of a suburban upper-middle-class family combine and change in the undertow of events. As if Clarence Day had written Future Shock into Life with Father, Doctorow's images and improvisations foreshadow the 20th century's coming preoccupation with scandal, psychoanalysis, solipsism, race, technological power and megalomania...