Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both play and film are calculated pieces of commercialism. Writer Leonard Gershe is a salesman who works the territory of dishonest daydreams. He creates a subordinate character called Ralph, a scruffy, loud-mouthed director of experimental plays who sneers at the "tight-assed matrons" in suburbia who patronize the theater. He talks a lot about nudity on stage, about the need for the theater to deal with subjects like dope, and he is made to look the fool. If Gershe's idea of honesty is Butterflies Are Free, it is Ralph who deserves our support...
...country preacher who now sports $15 Gucci ties and owns an elegant Japanese-style house in a quiet corner of northwest Washington, D.C. He is a middle-aged prairie populist whose strongest national appeal has been to the young and to the affluent and well-educated citizens of suburbia. He is an outwardly diffident, gentle man-Robert Kennedy once called him the only decent man in the U.S. Senate -whose professorial facade conceals a core of toughness and ambition. He likes movies and chocolate milkshakes, and has fired subordinates for unduly chewing out people working under them...
...Nader paradoxes. How explain a man who earns $200,000 a year, but lives on $5,000? Who assails even his former allies if they fall short of his exacting and peevish standards? Who refuses to drive a car, cheer the Redskins, make the cocktail parties, settle in suburbia, come to dinner, or allow visitors into his boardinghouse? But McCarry never comes close to defining his subject, in part because he never understands the consuming and monastic role-as Public Citizen-that Nader has assigned himself...
...that the increasingly black (now 69%) city school system be consolidated with the two predominantly white (91%) districts in suburban Henrico and Chesterfield counties. The order, which has been temporarily stayed pending an appeal, has important implications for other U.S. cities where the pattern of a "white noose" of suburbia surrounding a black-dominated central city is even more pronounced...
...only two of them. The following year, the NAACP filed a suit on behalf of eleven black youngsters aged eleven to 14, which led to court-ordered busing across the city. Even then, though, the blacks did not achieve real integration because the whites were already fleeing to suburbia...