Word: suburbanized
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...their 20s who have ingeniously realized their aspirations in the face of hardship." But the magazine has a great deal more to do with the leisurely diversions of the young, wealthy and idle--including Lauren and his friends who run the publication. Indeed, Swing is a product of spoiled suburban children who play at publishing and editorializing...
Replacing the Democratic liberals was a herd of Republicans ranging from the born-again to the libertarian, led by the china-and-crystal-sm ashing Congressman from suburban Atlanta, Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House. After a short burst of conciliation on election night, he seemed disinclined to throw Bill Clinton a rope. The President, he said, would be "very, very dumb" to try to stand in the way of the new conservative agenda. And to sharpen the point of the election, he called the Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks...
...SOCC's downtown Boston headquarters, repeated their assertions that Question 9 will displace elderly and low- and moderate-income tenants. "This will be absolutely devastating." Michael H. Turk, co-chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union, said last night. "It will end up turning Cambridge into an upper-income suburban enclave...
Almost since he first came to town in 1979, representing a House district in suburban Atlanta, Gingrich has been preaching and practicing a strategy of confrontation intended to break the Democratic hold on Congress by fracturing the place itself. By hammering away at its gentlemanly arrangements, its perks and, above all, its Democratic majority, Gingrich aimed to focus enough anger on Washington that voters would finally throw the rascals out. Among the newcomers who would rise in their place, he reasoned, Republicans would at last be the majority again...
...people before him were secure in their faith and in their right to shape and lead a new nation. Then a lot of things happened -- all meticulously noted in this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed," Frazier writes, and as a result the next cohort, his, "sort of pitched and yawed all over the place, spiritually...