Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There were always a few hostess gowns around, worn by the outré set, but in recent months, the revolution in chez nous apparel has spread to split-level suburbia and high-level city apartments. Although the one-piece version looks like a bathrobe and feels like a bathrobe, it is not a bathrobe because it 1 ) is not worn over a nightgown, and 2) costs more. But the price of hostess gowns is dropping as swiftly as their popularity is rising; last week Gimbels in Manhattan showed models costing less than $15 in its store windows. Fast catching...
...Democratic Party" at the Law School Forum in May, 1961, Mrs. Roosevelt called for a "re-alignment based on principles" in the American party system. She told the audience, which greeted her with a standing ovation, that today Democrats are becoming more representative of intellectual and middle-class "suburbia" groups...
Political analysts just love Connecticut. They think of it as a sort of microcosm, if only because it has a little bit of everything: dreary industrial cities, picturesque towns and superb suburbia. It has a certain amount of agriculture-if tough turkeys, and apples used mostly for bland cider, can be counted. It has roughly 360,000 registered Democrats, 360,000 registered Republicans and 600,000 independents-and the analysts adore independents. Connecticut is small but heavily populated: at its widest stretch, it is less than 100 miles across; within its modest boundaries live some 2,500,000 people...
...cost me $100,000." Do-It-Yourself Merchandising. For all their open-shirted informality, this band of amateurs demonstrated a remarkable knack for gauging correctly the profitable trends in retailing. Under Ferkauf's endless prodding, they began to move into the rich markets of suburbia, added to their basic stock in trade-appliances-most of the lines of merchandise that department stores carry. Korvette's also began to put out its own private labels, from Kor-Val vitamins to the booming XAM stereo hi-fi line (named in a backward way after Max, an alley cat of Ferkauf...
...just finished your cover story on cities, and I loved every word of it. I was born in Boston. I was raised in Boston. Like so many others, I got married and ran to suburbia. Well, I've had it. I am still married, but I'm back in Boston. Hooray for the city, and phooey to suburbia...