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International Nickel's new town of Thompson is still farther into the wilderness of scrub pines and countless lakes, but shows the new face of the push north. Its curving streets of ranch homes might have been lifted from the split-level suburbia of Cleveland or Chicago and deposited as they are 476 miles north of Winnipeg. On the Nelson River, 579 miles northeast of Winnipeg, construction was started this summer on a $325 million power project, as well as a new $100 million forest industry complex...
...Axis (Houghton Mifflin) by Charles Newman, 28, an English professor at Northwestern, finds its anti-hero in suburbia-Newman passed his adolescence in a wealthy Chicago suburb. Little Ed, the son of Big Ed, grows up in the world of picture windows and miniature tractors to become successively a tackle on the Country Day School football team, a lifeguard at the country club, an M.D. with a prosperous practice, the father of Little Little Ed-and a man who sometimes wonders sadly if he will really find salvation through his hobby: hand-hewing baseball bats. Author Newman's sentences...
...their fields, there is little jockeying for prestige and plenty of mutual respect. "This is a sort of paradise," says Literary Historian Marjorie Hope Nicolson, 72, former head of Columbia's English Department. And Philosopher Morton White calls it "a cosmopolitan island in the middle of suburbia, a place of refuge in which every moment is precious...
...Waldorf. After Britain, King captured Canada, and then achieved his greatest prominence in the U.S. (the Sullivan show, the Garry Moore program) with curt wisecracks mostly about the sorrows of suburbia: "I really believe my wife collects the garbage from the neighbors just so I can take...
...troublesome score and libretto of Trouble in Tahiti isn't worth the trouble. Leonard Bernstein's pretentiously modern one-act opera is an attack on hollow suburbia. Even in 1952, when it was written, that was a boringly standard iconoclasm. The music is generally wearisome, the libretto, also written by Bernstein, generally clumsy...