Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to its chain of 14 stores in four states, E. J. Korvette Co. (TIME, March 10) will open an outlet in a Greek-columned building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. The building's previous tenant (whose future Manhattan location is still undecided): W. & J. Sloane Inc., suburbia's favorite purveyors of high-priced home furnishings...
...some of the players responsible for the success of the British Carry On farces (Carry On Nurse, Doctor, etc.). There was really no need to change the title, unless the producers wanted to capitalize on its suggestiveness; this one could just as well have been called Carry On Suburbia. A teen-age girl, charmingly played by Julia Lockwood (daughter of Actress Margaret), writes a scandalous bestseller called Naked Revolt, and the whole town plays the guessing game of matching members of the author's family with their racy counterparts in what is taken to be a roman á clef...
...mystery. Perhaps, many years ago, it stole out of some Portuguese garden into the sea, and, just following its nodes, crept along the ocean floor like a living cable till it reached The Bronx. Not satisfied there, it moved on to plague the rest of the nation. This week Suburbia is again on Green Alert as the warming land sends crab grass busting...
...final panel, on "Leisure is Suburbia," was a bomb. Bosley Crowther, movie critic of the New York Times, leered at one of the female panel members and sniggered suggestively at his own off-color jokes, before piously denouncing over-sexed movies. Paul Goodman, author of Growing Up Absurd, fought with a Commissioner of Planning about whether Puerto Rican children should be allowed to swim in Westchester County pools...
Traditionally, Democrats have been aligned with the working classes in the big cities, she declared. Today, however, the constituency of the party is changing. She noted that now Democrats are becoming more representative of intellectual and middle-class "suburbia" groups...