Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Framed citations on the walls honored not politicians but fellow men of letters. There was one for Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, and another for John Updike '54 ("Eulogist of the farm, mythologist of the locker room, erotologist of suburbia, alchemist of the word," read the award...
When Billy Adler and John Margolies were growing up in suburbia, their fathers wanted them to go into law or business. But Billy and John, now 26, decided: no way. Why? It was because of TV, Margolies says. TV turned them off anything that involved reading and on to entirely new ways of looking at life that their fathers never knew. Billy and John did read Marshall McLuhan, however, and earned their master's degrees in communications. They dabbled in teaching, ad copywriting, architecture criticism and still photography...
...profit. During the past decade, the Sun-Times circulation has held steady at about 540,000, and is first in the city itself. The Tribune, despite a drop of 100,000 in the same period, maintains a comfortable overall lead at 768,000, due to a large readership in suburbia and surrounding states, and it carries almost half of all the daily ad linage in town...
...Essentially, Campland is a 42-acre parking lot that can accommodate 800 assorted trailers, mobile homes and just plain tents. For a fee that ranges from $4 to $6, depending on the size of lot, a family can pretend it is camping out while still enjoying the delights of suburbia. Television addicts can plug in their sets, Jacuzzi fans can return to the swirl, and if Mom forgot her hot pants back in San Berdoo, she can replace them at Campland's own boutique...
Since 1967, more than 30 major corporations have decided to flee Manhattan for the greener pastures of suburbia (TIME, April 26). The corporate exodus shows no sign of abating. Now General Electric, the fourth biggest U.S. industrial company, has called it quits, at least for most of its top executives and their staffs. The company will move 500 members of its 800-man headquarters staff-including the chairman, the president and many vice presidents-into a new office complex to be built on a 100-acre wooded site in Fairfield, Conn., 55 miles from the horrendous traffic congestion and frazzled...