Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Golden-Oldies. On ABC in recent months, a viewer could renew acquaintance with all kinds of golden-oldie situations. There was Kirk Douglas playing a worm turned psychopathic killer in Mousey; Robert Gulp as a bourgeois daddy forced to defend suburban hearth and home from a predatory adolescent gang in Outrage; Gulp again as one of a group of men who must work while their women anxiously wait in Houston, We 've Got a Problem (namely a space shot gone awry); Gloria Swanson doing a dotty old lady thing with her friends the Killer Bees; Natalie Wood and Robert...
...people start banking more of their paycheck instead of spending it. "The energy shortage should lessen the popularity of shopping as a sport," laments Sumner Feldberg, chairman of Massachusetts-based Zayre discount stores. "We're in for a period of tough retailing." Says Dick Balch, a suburban Seattle Chevrolet-Fiat dealer: "It looks to me as if the economy has just plain stopped...
...retailers. Mail-order sales of Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other catalogue houses are surging as more energy-conscious shoppers let their fingers do the traveling. Some store chains report that their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains G. John Doces, president of Seattle...
...same cars got 14 m.p.g. in typical freeway runs, 12 m.p.g. in suburban driving, and 10 m.p.g. in heavy city traffic...
Kiely tells friends that one possible scenario that may develop as a result of the controversy is an exodus of senior faculty from the Houses to more comfortable and isolated suburban residences. If this scenario comes to pass, he feels that the House system will be inalterably damaged and undergraduate education will suffer a major loss--a loss, he believes, few Faculty members will mourn...