Word: suburbanity
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...Georgetown, the No. 13 Harvard men’s lacrosse team showed its resilience by defeating Presbyterian (S.C.) College, 17-2, on Friday. The Crimson (5-2) faced the Blue Hose (0-9) for the first time ever on a neutral site at George Walton High School in suburban Atlanta, but Harvard did not let any of these peculiarities prevent it from putting together a complete game. Sophomore attack Dean Gibbons scored the first of his career-high five goals nearly a minute into the game off a pass from freshman attack Jeff Cohen. Presbyterian also came...
...with his role as the man who was, with John Updike, the esteemed chronicler of the postwar suburbs. But if you came to his fiction expecting sunlit scenes of American life, you were mistaken. Though his work was shot through with the beauty and abundance of the world, of suburban "nights where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains," there was also failure and weakness at every turn. The men were poorly equipped for life; the women were treacherous; children died. (See the top 10 John Updike books...
...Cheever's troubled nature was his fear of being "a small and dirty fraud," an impostor in his social pretensions and, especially, his sexuality. The suburban squire was just a shopkeeper's son. And though he took a sincere, even intense, sexual interest in women, it was impossible to superintend his wayward libido, which kept pointing him toward...
...news to no one that France's blighted unemployment-ravaged suburban housing projects have disproportionately high black and Arab populations. It's also no scoop that those same two ethnic groups are under-represented in the nation's elite schools, corporate management ranks and political establishment. The French themselves are acutely aware that racial discrimination is a problem - and since the 2005 suburban riots have appeared eager to do something to remedy...
...France's indivisible ideology is noble in theory - but often mocked by reality. There are plenty of periods in French history where racial and religious discrimination were rife - from the colonial era to cooperation with Nazi occupiers. The 2005 rioting that spread across France's suburban housing projects - and the international media attention that it drew - provided another reminder that something was seriously wrong in the land of fraternité et egalité. That unrest seems to have finally provoked a period of soul searching in France...