Word: suburbias
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...leavings, these people helped to nourish the roots of racism, even though they discriminated only in the most genteel ways--much like Harvard today, with its fashionably mild distaste for the Afro-American Studies Department and its yearly production of a crop of youth to fill the houses of suburbia. If Saturday's student marchers end up as part of that crop of youth, the march--though it will still have an immediate impact, and still be important--will also deserve all the labels its opponents will undoubtedly pin on it anyway...
This play walks a zigzag line between comedy and farce and often manages to be staggeringly funny. Alan Ayckbourn, a sly chronicler of British suburbia, gets three couples together on successive Christmas Eves in their respective kitchens and wreaks droll havoc on their status and character...
...gets a bad press. T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) terminated his romance with himself aboard a British army bike, which he had named George VII. During the '50s and '60s, Hell's Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer...
...breaking news stories that commuting readers have already seen in the Manhattan press or heard on their car radios. Newsday combines solid local coverage with ambitious national and international undertakings. It invested a year of reporting, for instance, to produce a sophisticated 13-part feature called "The Real Suburbia." (Among its findings: suburban housewives "overwhelmingly" say they are happy rather than bored or lonely, most new residents are not driven away by city problems but are attracted to suburban living...
...without a series of long tirades from many sides concerning the evils of the commercialization of Christmas. Because of new state and federal regulations ornaments that use energy will be making fewer and shorter appearances this year. Though it may not be voluntary, 1973 will see a waning of suburbia's rat race to keep up with the myriad decorations the Joneses have. If nothing else, this season will be punctuated by a lack of conspicuous celebrating; perhaps a disguised call for the resurrection of that ever-elusive 'Christmas spirit...