Word: suburbias
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Producer-Director Kent Mackenzie spent a year interviewing the kids, then finally brought them together for a six-day session under the guidance of two doctors. The chosen youths come from every background, ghetto to suburbia, and from every kind of home. But as the session progresses, it becomes ap parent that they are bound together by a common sense of loss and uncertainty...
...cities go; all are financially strapped and suffering from a physical decay that urban renewal has attacked but failed to cure. All the loser cities have experienced racial strife along with a rapid increase in their black populations. Businessmen are now simply following the white middle class to suburbia. Understandable as their individual decisions are, they are widening the chasm of race and class in many U.S. metropolitan areas...
...must protest the gross misconception perpetrated in your article on suburbia [March 15]. El Monte has many faces, and TIME is unjust in describing the least desirable attributes of our city...
...Maybe now that someone has finally found out that suburbia does not consist of only the wealthy few but also of low-and middle-income people, TV and movies will condescend to create us as we really are-not radical hardhats or ultraliberals, but nice conservatives...
...really need another stereotyped, cliché-ridden article about the "depiavity" of the suburbs? Your article perpetuates the myth of suburbia with its materialism, wife swapping, country clubs and veiled racism as subjects. Suburbanites are just like everyone else, just people, so why make the word suburb a dirty one, like capitalism or success, which are just as offensive...