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...Keiths went back and what they found in postwar Borneo make for a chatty, cheerful saunter through life in a jungle suburbia...
...good old days before World War II, a cop knew where he stood, in New Rochelle, in New York's staid Westchester County. It was Suburbia for the Suburbanites then, and, except for a few rough spots, keeping the peace was a cinch. Every now & then some shady-looking characters in veils and spangles would wander into town, but a good cop would spot them quick for what they were, and run them in. As one of New Rochelle's finest explained it delicately last week: "You know, gypsies-always out to commit some larceny by theft...
...hardly fair to blame colleges in general, or Dartmouth in particular, for the triumph of Suburbia or the possibility of World War III. Colleges are symptoms and victims of a cosmic disease, and they cannot be cured by injections of radical hormones. World affairs are pushing college education around these days, and it may be a long time before ideals can turn the tables...
...Suburbia...
...climate when it could have been different. Right after World War II, before the arteries hardened, before rigor mortis began to set in, when the Liberalism of the '30's contended with the Reaction of the late '40's. It was a good fight for three years--before Suburbia won the rubber match, and World War III became the trophy. From The Dartmouth, January...