Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (ABC, Friday, 9:30-10 p.m. E.D.T.). All in the Family became TV's No. 1 hit by making light of bigotry and prejudice, right? So why not do a show about a white couple in middle-class suburbia who suddenly discover that the new couple next door is black, and then twisting things around so that the black guy is just as prejudiced against white folks as the white guy is against blacks? Right on, right? Thanks to the grace of Janet MacLachlan and Joyce Bulifant, the pilot episode managed to be nearly inoffensive, despite...
They rumble through Boorstin's pages at length twice, once as the begetters of the central city and its department stores, again as the linchpins to the new suburbia. The department stores, too, emerge as a "democratic experience," the first places in the world where the poor as well as the rich could gawk at a vast array of bright new wares. Only occasionally does Boorstin ride a hobbyhorse too far. Obviously infatuated with the cowboy and all his ways, he devotes an entire section to an exhaustive -and nearly exhausting-treatise on the technology of cattle branding...
...Suburbia Heard From
...Your book review of Suburbia, with photographs by Bill Owens [June 4], really got me. I put aside my TIME, went down to the family room of my suburban bi-level, poured a paper cup of Diet Rite, turned on the color TV, and tried to forget...
...place is the Livermore Amador Valley of California, a community of split-level haciendas 40 freeway minutes from San Francisco. It is suburbia, the material goal men seem to have been inching toward ever since Neanderthal times. For Americans it is the last flush card of the New Deal. "We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really nice home," say Mom and Dad. The statement is as matter-of-fact as a fried...