Word: suburbanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prompted by notes left in his mailbox by an old crone, Jack Hind renews the quest he had abandoned for Hershey Laurel, a suburban family's kidnaped child. Curiously, the clues all lead to Hind's friends and then back to his own wife and child, whom he has neglected, and finally back to an exploration of himself. Hind, self-consciously tall at 6 ft. 7 in., does not know his own parents and was brought up by a guardian whose strict moral precepts still order his life. Perhaps this is why Hind gradually comes to think...
...whole area. Such public goods include transportation, police protection, and air pollution. The exception to these is education. Here one must accept community control as political reality. In the central city, however, federal funds should increase substantially to put the quality of urban schooling on roughly equal footing with suburban. Political control over these funds, however, is lost for good and must be accepted...
...high cost of abortions-from $500 up-has limited the clientele of the counseling service; most callers are relatively prosperous suburban whites. Prospective clients who dial the M.C.P.P.C.'s Detroit number-964-0838-hear a recorded female voice that gives names and telephone numbers of participating ministers. The roster, whose members represent almost all Protestant denominations, changes regularly. Each woman caller is told to bring a doctor's certificate indicating a positive pregnancy and the date of conception. During the counseling session, however, she has to undergo neither sermonizing nor inquiries into her sexual conduct...
...Bostonians didn't fill in their Back Bay just because railroad trestles had made its water stagnant and putrid, or because they liked challenge. Back Bay represented the last development of Boston as a centralized city. The mother peninsula was cramped and almost completely developed-and before the suburban railroads and the auto, the city itself couldn't really expand across the water...
...spent a few weeks tramping about the country for McCarthy. It had been a strange experience, because, deep down, we knew that people weren't voting for McCarthy as much as they were voting for us. That was the only rationale for wasting an hour talking with a suburban housewife or trying to cajole a guy that you knew was an implacable racist into voting for Gene. All the time we had been nothing but walking advertisements, not always even aware of the dishonesty at the very soul of our campaign. Why else did we try to dress hassled...