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UNLIKE HIS students who grew up with all the comforts that suburbia had to offer, Mr. Doig was not cynical or doubtful about what a decent human being could achieve in this world. He did not talk about progress in terms of dialectical materialism or historical forces; he believed that honesty and faith in humankind were the only essentials in the conquest of human injustice. All else took a back seat in his thinking about the world...
These stories are symptomatic of a virulent outbreak, in modern, urbanized America, of an early frontier frenzy: land fever. Around metropolitan centers, real estate developers are pushing suburbia farther and farther into the countryside. Out in the deserts and woodlands, people who want vacation homes are scrambling to pick up pieces of the good earth. They are being joined by speculators, who have rediscovered in real estate the fast-buck thrills that a droopy stock market rarely provides. Citizens are taking seriously the advice of Humorist Will Rogers: "Buy land. They ain't makin'any more...
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR (ABC, Friday, 9:30-10 p.m. E.D.T.). All in the Family became TV's No. 1 hit by making light of bigotry and prejudice, right? So why not do a show about a white couple in middle-class suburbia who suddenly discover that the new couple next door is black, and then twisting things around so that the black guy is just as prejudiced against white folks as the white guy is against blacks? Right on, right? Thanks to the grace of Janet MacLachlan and Joyce Bulifant, the pilot episode managed to be nearly inoffensive, despite...
They rumble through Boorstin's pages at length twice, once as the begetters of the central city and its department stores, again as the linchpins to the new suburbia. The department stores, too, emerge as a "democratic experience," the first places in the world where the poor as well as the rich could gawk at a vast array of bright new wares. Only occasionally does Boorstin ride a hobbyhorse too far. Obviously infatuated with the cowboy and all his ways, he devotes an entire section to an exhaustive -and nearly exhausting-treatise on the technology of cattle branding...
...Your book review of Suburbia, with photographs by Bill Owens [June 4], really got me. I put aside my TIME, went down to the family room of my suburban bi-level, poured a paper cup of Diet Rite, turned on the color TV, and tried to forget...