Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...milieu of mediocrity typified by false status symbols, development-house suburbia and permanented hairdos, we praise the commonplace, criticize the unusual. Jacqueline Kennedy is a standout, not only for her natural beauty and discerning taste, but for her possession of a lost art in the U.S. today: the art of being an individualist...
...white immigrant groups, the Negroes did not join together in ethnic communities upon arrival in the "land of the free" and were thus not able together to accustom themselves to the new society and to pursue mobility aims in the classic Lower East Side-to-"respectable" apartments-to-suburbia fashion of the other major immigrant communities, Slavery meant that members of the same African village or tribe were forcibly separated and settled in different parts of this country and even that members of the same family were split from each other. Linguistic and cultural traditions were literally destroyed...
...Wallace ("Wink1') Marshall, an urbane NBS nightly newscaster whose voice-charmed life demonstrates "how well a reasonably brainy man can do if he just doesn't use his brains.'' However. Wink does have an age problem, and it is all tied up with sex and suburbia...
...Perhaps one of the most undesirable aspects of Suburbia from a sociological and ideological point of view is its racial homogeneity. Generally speaking, these are highly restricted all-white communities. How can the U.S. provide dynamic leadership in a constantly shrinking world populated by a great majority of nonwhite people when our future leaders have been reared on islands isolated from the main stream of social intercourse in their formative years...
...week's end, as they nursed their power mowers down the lawn, Suburbia's men paused here and there to enjoy a spell of nothing more salacious than wife-watching. Tanned, brief-clad women sprawled in their chaises and chatted about babies, Khrushchev, Japan and the P.T.A. In the patios, the amateur chefs prepared juicy sacrifices on the suburban Buddhas -the charcoal grills. Mint-flavored iced tea or tart martinis chilled thirsty throats, and from across hedgerows and fences came the cries of exultant youngsters and the yells and laughter of men and women engaged in a rough...