Word: sun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Overseers on a University-nominated slate of candidates--takes the reader through four alternative communities that popped up in America during the past two decades: the Castro, San Fransisco's gay neighborhood; Lynchburg, Virginia, home of Jerry Falwell's Liberty Baptist Church; the Rajneeshee community in Oregon; and the Sun City retirement village in Florida...
FITZGERALD combines smooth writing and keen journalistic observation in her tale of four such attempts by contemporary Americans to start all over again. FitzGerald's best chapters are the ones exploring the Castro and Sun City. We witness the excitement and joy of the gay community as social values relax enough so that they can "come out of the closet" and settle in one place--their place--to live and to start over. FitzGerald takes us into the life of their community, from its parades to costume balls. With her, we take part in their joyous spirit of release...
Fitzgerald's tour of Sun City is equally fascinating. She sees Sun City--and other retirement villages like it--as the most radical of the communities discussed in her book. "Never had older people taken themselves off to live in isolation from younger generations," she writes. Senior citizens living in Sun Cities across the nation are on the "cutting edge" and living well into their eighties. She writes...
...sense, the residents of Sun City Center and their peers across the United States are living on a frontier. Not a geographical frontier but a chronological one. Old age is nothing new, of course, but for an entire generation to reach old age with its membership almost intact is something new. Until this century, death had no more relation to old age than it had to any other period of life. In fact, it had less...
...some students, the fun in the sun of spring break gives way to work in the slums as campuses experience a renewal of volunteerism...