Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sales in the first quarter were the highest in history, rising 7% over last year and 4% over record 1955. Automen no longer consider what is happening in the industry a boom; taking into account a steadily growing population, the growth of multicar families and the steady spread of suburbia, they feel that the industry has reached an era in which 8,000,000 sales will be a normal year. Some automen are already talking about 10 million a year...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. Evicted from St. Botolphs and its rooted way of life by time, circumstance and inclination, the younger generation of Wap-shots find the 20th century closing in and the fit uncomfortable, whether in suburbia or in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a missile base...
...millions of mulchers, seeders, weeders, pruners and preeners of U.S. Suburbia and Exurbia, spring arrives in a blaze of nursery catalogues and dreams of floral glory. This month gardening buffs have been streaming through the nation's flower shows, green thumbs twitching. All winter, in fact, a surprising number of them had potting soil under their fingernails. For greenhouses are getting to be almost common-or-garden...
...native costume (Ivy League in this case). Cheever has infiltrated the permissive, prosperous characters who people High Suburbia and is apt to show up on the cocktail terrace or dining room to disconcert his agnostic friends with a pulpit message and scandalize the merely pious by preaching it on a text from Ovid involving the couplings of goddesses and beasts...
...picture he offers of suburbia, science, politics, and other vulnerable aspects of contemporary life is a credibly dismal one, but is also disjointed and confused. While the Wapshots stay to one side of the picture, a number of characters (some of them quite minor) occupy, with their mutually irrelevant stories, a suprising amount of room. Six parts of The Wapshot Scandal originally appeared in The New Yorker, and signs of the independence that they once enjoyed prevent them from forming a coherent whole...