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...which they could commute to their jobs. When World War II ended, the sweep to the suburbs turned into a stampede. The veterans came home, the legion of war workers burst out of crowded city quarters, and in battalions they set out to find homes where the land was greener and cheaper. New settlements spread across acre upon acre; small, sleepy old towns were inundated by newcomers, and the suburban way of life became the visible substance of what a hard-working nation was working so hard for. "Eventually," observes Humorist-Exurbanite James Thurber (Cornwall, Conn.) of the steady spread...
...found herself pregnant-a nice, easygoing nobody who brings home a steady salary and doesn't ask too many questions. The mother herself is no better than she should be: a pretty, shallow blonde who consults only her own pleasure and takes it where the grass is greener. She works all day in an office. At night she gives her son the back of her tongue and the heel of the bread; and when she thinks he is asleep, she pesters her husband to "board him out so I can have some peace...
Compounding the tendency to flee to greener pastures from New Haven is the close proximity of New York--an hour and a half away--and several women's colleges: Smith only two hours distant, and Wellesley but three. The casualness of Elis towards traveling is exemplified by three who journeyed to Wellesley in order to take blind dates to a movie. It is the avowed purpose of President Griswold to cut down on this roaming by increasing academic work loads...
Busy Gravedigger. As the refugees fled to greener lands, they buried their dead along the way, piling stones to keep off animals and topping the graves with crude wooden crosses. "We are working hard," said a gravedigger in the parched town of Juàzeiro do Norte, where funerals can be bought for 4?. "We have twelve children to bury every day. It used to be one or two." Health officials estimated that in the worst drought areas half of all children under a year old would...
...Brattle has been relying heavily on old French movies this spring, and while the latest offering is not the worst, I think the Brattle had best turn to greener fields...