Word: suburbias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Riesman still has a big gripe with American life. He deplores the vapid joylessness and the comfy-cozy ways of suburbia, the white collar man, and the mass media. Unlike existentialists, however, Riesman refuses to believe that mass production per se brings on the magnified man; instead, like Marx, he thinks mass production has freed man for better things...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A tragical-farcical sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle hurls the hapless Wapshot family from cozy 19th century St. Botolphs into the present precarious world of supermarkets, noncommunities and missile-research centers. It establishes Cheever as suburbia's first poet-mythologist...
...additional public-housing units each year, to be added not through new construction but more quickly by Government purchase or lease of existing unoccupied structures. In his freshest innovation, the President offered a three-part program to combat the "space-consuming, unplanned and uneconomic" sprawl of suburbia. Johnson would 1) grant direct loans to help communities set aside land for future public facilities, 2) insure subdivision builder loans to install basic facilities such as sewer and water lines, and 3) insure private community developer loans to help finance land for schools and parks. All this is expected to boost spending...
...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. A tragical-farcical sequel to The Wapshot Chronicle hurls the hapless Wapshot family from cozy 19th century St. Botolphs into the present precarious world of supermarkets, noncommunities and missile research centers, and establishes Author Cheever as Suburbia's first poet-mythologist...
...social disguise for the heft of Cheever's work, which moves between tragedy and farce and realism and fantasy to present a heavy parable of American life-especially the life of the semi-migratory U.S. bourgeoisie and the uncertain ecology of their nesting grounds in the U.S. suburb. Suburbia, which in its modern form is barely a generation old, has so far lacked the kind of precentor or poet that the South, the West, the City, and the Small Town long since acquired. In John Cheever, Suburbia has its first poet-mythologist...