Word: suburbias
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Federal housing programs have grown like suburbia in the quarter-century since Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed that "one-third of a nation [is] ill-housed." A structure so costly-taking in mortgage insurance, home-improvement loans, slum clearance, public housing, special programs for colleges, military posts, old people, veterans, farmers-requires clear definitions of its purpose and scope, but in mid-1958 the definitions are even hazier than they were in New Deal days. Federal housing programs seem to be founded on a feeling that better housing is A Good Thing-a worthy sentiment, but too vague, in itself, to serve...
Besides golf courses and women's clubs, today's Suburbia has some of the nation's most advanced public schools. The great migration from the cities to commuter-land, bringing hordes of new students in its van, has subjected suburban education to great strains. Many schools have responded to and grown with this challenge, however, and today a good number of suburban high schools are rated among the best in the country...
...mostly the adulterers play in luck. Larry gives up a fine job to be near Margaret. But when it comes to planning the future, they would like a really full life; they want each other and their married mates as well. Author Evan Hunter suggests that life in suburbia is to blame, mutters vaguely that even success and a happy family are not enough for a man whose inner urges push beyond the humdrum life at the other...
...outline lists as sub-topics suburbia, religious and ethnic groups, worker-manager relationships in factories, and the American "elite...
...seems probable that she will make suburbia after all, for on the bus, in the final, movie-ending ride away from carefree childhood, sits the man who has waited for her to grow up-Playwright Wally (Marty Milner). Except for his freckles and the wide-rimmed spectacles he uses to help hide them, Wally looks, talks, thinks and acts just like the lawyer or the doctor: conventional, respectable and successful. Thus, Marjorie's parents (Claire Trevor, Everett Sloane) can rest assured that middle-class morality has triumphed...