Word: saxon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times offered "nine personalized coupons to express your secret, suburban self." Prepared by Vice President John Bergin of Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and illustrated by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Saxon, the coupons joked about everything from Early American furniture to the late-commuting American male, appealed to the strong self-improvement drive of housewives, neatly parodied some of Mrs. Suburbia's best-known clichès. Samples: "Seldom during the day do I talk to anyone over three feet tall. This little world I live in is no place for someone over 21. Since...
...Author Vance Packard saw it in his bestselling The Status Seekers (TIME, June 8), most Americans of Anglo-Saxon ancestry like to sentimentalize their forebears by living in Early American, white clapboard houses. On Christmas Eve, Homeowner Packard took his ease with his wife Virginia and their three children in their 45-year-old, 12-room, two-story, fairly Early American (Federalist), white clapboard house in New Canaan, Conn. At about 7:30 p.m., Packard abruptly learned that such throwback houses also have a drawback: they can be authentic, antique tinder heaps. Sparks from the Packards' roaring Yuletide...