Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 20s, she herself is, by what seems at the time her own choice, the wife of a standard-model civil servant and the mother of a conventional child. Although she has "views"-she disbelieves vaguely in the color bar-she is accepted placidly by colonial suburbia. Then she discovers that she feels as if she were going mad. Older wives smile kindly and say, Yes, that's right, everyone feels that...
Further on in the statement, it claimed that "In suburbia, the Goldwater-Miller campaign was a disaster. The Southern strategy wiped out the substantial gains made by Eisenhower and Nixon in the Southern suburbs. And in the North, the radical appeal of the national ticket was overwhelmingly rejected...
...states. These new citizens face the disturbing task of synthesizing the family-orientated, conservative moralism of their hometowns with the sun-seeking hedonism of a state still entranced with the glamorous legends of Hollywood. the synthesis has not yet been made, and beneath the pastel tranquillity of the California Suburbia the struggle between the two ways of life continues...
...Classic Lines. The gods were more elaborately and profoundly explored in Cheever's Wapshot Chronicle. These stories are in his lesser mode. In fact, the stratagem of treating suburbia as if it were a sacred grove, with every flowering tree an imprisoned nymph, works best when it is worked least. One story, for instance, begins: "Larry Actaeon was built along classical lines . . ." and the reader, with the help of a mythological dictionary, recalls that Actaeon observed Diana at her bath and was punished by being turned into a stag and torn apart by hounds. All too patly, Larry Actaeon...
...clean look." Boston and New York, headquarters for Ivy League shoppers, agree. Charles Stanwood, divisional merchandise manager of New England's mammoth Jordan Marsh, claims campus fashions are moving toward "the refined look, the fun look, more of a suburban look." Others feel it is Paris, not suburbia, that has influenced college styles, point to the pants suit and the figure-skimming A-line dress. Nonetheless, whether it is Courreges who gets the credit, or Concord, Mass., Dior or Darien, the fact remains: Betty Coed may not make it through Soc. Sci. 101, but only Daddy is likely...