Word: suburbias
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...weather that brought on this year's onslaught of crab grass was a mixture of wet, cold spring and hot, humid summer. a combination that weakens perennial grasses and strengthens the hardy weed. In Suburbia, where crab grass on a lawn can lower a man's status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison...
...crust of this old earth ready for Kiesler's structures such as "Endless House" [May 25], which are not premeditated by the prerequisites of conventional planning to secure the bank loan and a dogmatic facade for thy neighbor's sake? American suburbia still says no, I'm afraid...
This and other musical numbers are strung together like unmatched beads, but some of them have the wicked glint of genuine satire. Party Song stingingly peppers the social climbers of suburbia. Rejection ("that childhood rejection") does the same for the hobohemian set. New York is a cathartic for all the romantic nonsense set to music about the Big Town...
...Housebreaker of Shady Hill, by John Cheever. A master of the short story looks through the cracked picture windows at the anxieties of upper suburbia...
...replaced by flowered wall-paper.) Idealists and mothers' sons gave her the vote--and she sent Eisenhower to Korea. She invaded poetry and journalism, industry and politics, legal courts and graduate schools. She wrote advice to the love-lorn. Those twin sisters of feminine freedom--Adultery and Alimony--turned suburbia into Sodom and rendered Scollay Square passe...