Word: suburbias
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...wandering American. Moscow, long hidden by the Iron Curtain, a source of conspiracy, strange dogmas and menacing dangers, is a legitimate object of U.S. curiosity. With some 5.000.000 people within its city limits and another 2,000.000 in surrounding suburbia, it is probably the third-largest city in the world...
Progress was creeping up on Long Island's famed old Deepdale Golf Club. The ranch homes of well-heeled suburbia were already encamped on its borders; soon its green and rolling acres would be split by the broad scar of an express highway. It was time to move on. But before their old bar was closed, before the silver trophies were packed for shipment, Deepdale's members decided to hold one more tournament on the trim fairways that have known such diverse golfers as William K. Vanderbilt and Dwight Eisenhower, Bing Crosby and Bobby Jones...
...fire bells ring through Pennsylvania's Bucks, and icy disdain waft across Long Island's North Shore. For Author Spectorsky, once a commuter himself, has turned traitor to his class and performed a hatchet job on the commuting world around New York City. He writes not about Suburbia ("dull and demure domesticity") but about Exurbia, his word for the belt just beyond. Unlike many more naive chroniclers, Spectorsky does not pretend that all the suburbs or exurbs are alike. And he records the differences with the thoroughness of a Baedeker and the sincerity of a presentation designed...
...Suburbia has introduced its concept of success into the very center of church life . . . The task of the churches as witnesses to Christ's lordship . . . has been submerged . . . The test of every parish enterprise is whether it will bring monetary and numerical progress...
...church's captivity to [suburbia] is the death blow to recovery of the Biblical view of corporate life, corporate sin and corporate salvation . . . 'Salvation' and 'redemption' are disturbing to suburbia . . . Whatever the reason, the Biblical faith is rarely met with in suburbia despite growing church membership and activity...