Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must protest the gross misconception perpetrated in your article on suburbia [March 15]. El Monte has many faces, and TIME is unjust in describing the least desirable attributes of our city...
...Your article on suburbia [March 15] confirmed my suspicion that human nature is the one constant in a world of rapidly changing variables. The changes are not surprising; they are bound to happen. Perhaps some day soon we will all recognize our common ground and begin again. Utopia cannot exist in suburbia (zoning ordinances will not permit it), but somewhere between the city block and the country lane, a sense of unity can exist...
...Maybe now that someone has finally found out that suburbia does not consist of only the wealthy few but also of low-and middle-income people, TV and movies will condescend to create us as we really are-not radical hardhats or ultraliberals, but nice conservatives...
...really need another stereotyped, cliché-ridden article about the "depiavity" of the suburbs? Your article perpetuates the myth of suburbia with its materialism, wife swapping, country clubs and veiled racism as subjects. Suburbanites are just like everyone else, just people, so why make the word suburb a dirty one, like capitalism or success, which are just as offensive...
...between the farms and the cities will be an ever growing, ever more self-sufficient suburbia expanding into one continuous blur, as it does already along the northeast corridor from Boston to Washington. In these spreading suburbs, in all their diverse forms, will come a further test of American democracy. The auguries are good: the Harris survey points to a high incidence of civic concern, and the example of Evanston indicates that the combination of civic concern with a manageable governmental unit can work very well indeed. Suburbia may never re-create the New England town meeting, but it could...