Word: suburbias
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Neither of us expected it to last, of course--she tunneling towards thesis and medical school, me jabbing a reporter's typewriter in suburbia. Still, when it blew, I wasn't ready. Harvard was over...
...part of a residential neighborhood of old homes while at the back there is a terrace with a steep drop to downtown. On one side you are blinded by the gleaming lights of the metropolis while on the other you are seeped in the peace and stillness of suburbia...
Inspiration for the chapters comes from the John Birch Society's third building in Belmont, 4 Hill Road. This completely unmarked colonial block-building in the midst of suburbia also houses the Society's research files, which take up most of the second floor in row upon row of olive-green Army-jeep-looking file cabinets. William E. Dunham, the research director for the Society, called the files "invaluable...
MOTIVATION: My life in suburbia, which had seemed stale for a long time, now seemed absolutely inane. Things were going on, things being done, and I was reluctant to leave where I felt the action was. [Also-and this is the most difficult admission for me to make-I had always been a deeply religious person and attended church. I have a guardian angel theory, and I had felt during the program, and still genuinely feel, that the guardian angel had a purpose for me in being there. Bert (her FBI contact) is a devout Roman Catholic, as is Catherine...
...only kid show to avoid entirely is SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (ABC, Sunday, 7 p.m. E.D.T.). The grand old dream of escape from civilization to an island Eden has been thoroughly polluted, not least by the fact that this family comes not from Switzerland but from suburbia. They seem to have plenty of food and water out there on their atoll, but they are going to bore themselves to death in a month or so-and the viewer with them. Richard Schickel