Word: suburbias
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...saints of suburbia are the gogetters. Under their influence suburban church life has become so thriving, says the Rev. Gibson Winter of Brighton, Mich, in the Christian Century, that it "has become the controlling force in American Christianity." What effect has this shift had on the church's spiritual message? Answers Episcopalian Winter: "Despite the strength it has produced, this domination is a threat to the church's witness to Christ's lordship...
...hollow ring. Instead of the academic sanctuary envisioned by 19th century Harvard presidents, the University too often now is a place where the younger Faculty member spends his day between 9 and 5 like any other commuter. The high rents and poor housing in the neighborhood drive him to suburbia...
Does cheating the Government make a doctor unfit to treat his patients? The question had Philadelphia's suburbia split right down its Main Line last week. Center of the storm: Surgeon Clare C. Hodge, 46, who came home last September after serving three months in prison for defrauding the U.S. of $166,000 in income taxes (between 1943 and 1950, he took in unreported fees totaling $432,000, paid taxes totaling only...
...produce some of the most wryly pleasant light verse now being written. New Yorker readers have delighted for 20 years in the stings of her short barbs, sharpened on the complexities of modern living. She has published six books of poetry (the last, in 1951, an unabashed panegyric to suburbia called A Short Walk From the Station) and eight books for children...
...growth of suburbia has changed the pattern of U.S. retail trade so much that only a relatively few new stores have gone up in the center of big cities in recent years. Even the old, established stores are feeling the competition from the suburbs. In Boston, retail trade increased 275% faster in the suburbs than in the city in the last two decades, while in Detroit, the J. L. Hudson Co. expects to lose fully 15% of its business to its new store in its suburban shopping center. To combat such losses, downtown businessmen are offering special lures to shoppers...