Word: suburbias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Often lacking the education to seek better jobs or the money to flee to suburbia, blue collar workers live with nagging fears of muggings, of illness or layoffs at work, and of automation. According to a recent survey by the University of Michigan, one-half of all industrial workers worry continually about their job security, and one-quarter are concerned about their safety; 14,000 were killed in on-the-job accidents last year, more than the number of U.S. servicemen who died in Viet Nam in 1969. Fully 28% have no medical coverage, 38% no life insurance...
...Marya Mannes, and the versatile Norman Mailer. All of them point out that the author is, indeed, a very witty political critic. All of American society comes under attack in this volume, from the President to plastics, from television to crime in the streets. The portraits of a mindless suburbia, of seething, terror-ridden cities, are fiendishly accurate, easily recognizable, when the author departs from her subject long enough to make them. All of these catalogues of horrors, written in the kind of verse Time magazine would use if it used verse, are curiously striking. Even their unconnected, staccato prosiness...
...when you looked at your best friends, they were hustling. The SEEK kids will be bringing in a new type of success. By seeing me do it, people can say they can do it too-if they want to. It would be bad if SEEK kids left for suburbia," he says. "They should go back to the community and work with the SEEK generation. I'm going back to teach, and I don't care at what level...
...those days when I had to go into the office, I would run right out to my car at 4:30 or five, race on to the freeway, race on home to suburbia. The Motor City remained a mystery...
...with a new national prominence, Meyer expanded his interests and moved full steam into the excesses and perversions of modern suburbia. In the new film everyone drives a Rolls Royce, wears well-coordinated clothes, and sits in livingrooms with impressive views. But along with Meyer's new ambience his characters have lost some of their old verve. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls lacks Meyer's notoriously tantalizing abandon. Disappointingly he has acquired serious pretentions...