Word: suburbanization
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That social goal was achieved at the cost of great disruption: the inner-city whites, many of Irish or Italian descent, resented what they viewed as upper- class suburban values imposed on them. Black children were unprepared for the surge in hostility, and the schools were turned into fortresses. As Lukas dramatically illustrates, small pieces of neighborhood turf became battlefields, while children's chances for self-improvement slipped away. The travail of Boston's leaders was amply reported at the time, but Lukas' account focuses on the impoverished participants in the social experiment, black and white...
...classic New Deal argument, movingly spoken. But Cuomo took it too far...he evoked a nation reminiscent of 50 years before, at the height of the Depression, an America remembered from his own childhood. The scenes he described were distant from the lives of ordinary suburban Americans of 1984. The depression he so piously depicted seemed all but impossible in a modern prosperous welfare state...
...classic of the late '50s: a child runs across a suburban lawn, arms outspread, beaming broadly and shouting, "Look, Mom--no cavities!" That sales pitch, offered when fluoridated toothpastes were introduced, hardly seemed credible. Few American children, nurtured as they were (and still are) on candy bars and other sweets, returned from a dental checkup in triumph. In fact, it was not unusual for a child to have five, six or seven cavities at a time, and just as many the following year. Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients...
Forget Pac-Man. The latest pastime is more explosive than any video game. For only $10, housewives, accountants or truck drivers at the Bullet Stop in suburban Atlanta rent automatic weapons like UZI submachine guns and blast away with live ammo ($10.75 to $12.75 per box of 50 shells) on twelve carefully supervised shooting lanes. The targets: old bowling pins and combat-training silhouettes. "We get a lot of Rambo types," says Owner Paul LaVista, 38. "But mostly attorneys, airline pilots and doctors. They're big-time spenders." LaVista, who is working on franchising his smashing idea, claims that...
Reagan approved this approach and told McFarlane, who knew Berri from his % days as a special Middle East envoy in 1983, to use this relationship to put pressure on the Amal leader. In the middle of the night, from his suburban Maryland home, McFarlane spoke with Berri. During the 30-minute conversation, he passed along the message that had been worked out at the NSC meeting. Washington would not join in arrangements to free Israel's 776 Lebanese prisoners while Americans were being held, McFarlane told Berri. "The thrust was to get across to Berri that the Shi'ite prisoners...