Word: suburbias
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...fingers of Vietnamese who tried to claw their way into the embassy compound to escape from their homeland. An apocalyptic carnival air?some looters wildly driving abandoned embassy cars around the city until they ran out of gas; others ransacking Saigon's Newport PX, that transplanted dream of American suburbia, with one woman bearing off two cases of maraschino cherries on her head and another a case of Wrigley's Spearmint gum. Out in the South China Sea, millions of dollars worth of helicopters profligately tossed overboard from U.S. rescue ships, discarded like pop-top beer cans to make room...
...Idaho-based supermarket chain that he headed, A. & P. had been working slowly toward improving its image and sales. In each of the last five years it has closed between 200 and 400 stores, mostly small, marginal operations. Last year it opened 113 large stores, many of them in suburbia, and it now has 160 more in the planning stages. Scott is already talking of building a string of "superstores" that will contain drug departments and general merchandise sections along with the usual meat and potatoes. Says he: "We must move ahead to complete the transition that other chains completed...
ALFRED KAZIN GAVE Updike "an A-plus" for his last novel, calling him "a sociologist of all this new American territory." Updike deserved it--as a chronicler of suburbia he is unsurpassed. But a sociologist is something different from a novelist. He is an onlooker--in Updike's case, a perceptive and entertaining one--and he watches from a safe distance. The artist who stands removed from the scene and the people he describes risks losing a gut sensibility that a sociologist, after...
...cent of the electorate is black, though 40 per cent of the school children are from minority groups. But the NSCAR never takes an official stand on the validity of the concept of the School Committee. Their efforts are directed more towards middle-class whites already segregated in suburbia, and students isolated on campuses, than towards the black inner-city community...
...stock character from Updike's central casting. He snorts at liberal Protestantism and pumps for devotion inspired by awe and terror ("Mop up spilt religion! Let us have it in its original stony jars or not at all!"). At the same time he pushes graphic, adulterous sex as suburbia's best anodyne; coupling is sweetest with the ashen taste of sin. He sees women chiefly as attractive hurdles in the heavenly sweepstakes, where all the runners are male...