The movie is set a half century ago — not in the actual nineteen-fifties but in the semi-mythical fifties of John Cheever, Sloan Wilson, and many other writers as well as Yates, a time in which the orderly bedroom communities of New York and Connecticut were mourned as the national emblem of disillusionment and spiritual decline.
The movie is set a half century ago not in the actual nineteen-fifties but in the semi-mythical fifties of John Cheever, Sloan Wilson, and many other writers as well as Yates, a time in which the orderly bedroom communities of New York and Connecticut were mourned as the national emblem of disillusionment and spiritual decline.
Although often persecuted for pacifism or for bizarre beliefs falsely attributed to them, the Shakers won admiration for their model farms, orderly and prosperous communities, and fair dealing with outsiders.
The association is clinched by "Wonder Float" and "Field Day," pieces defined by orderly little housing communities (made of leftover exhibition announcements), picket fences, a functioning toy train set (delivering colored fish-tank pebbles) and life-size potted geraniums and wheatgrass.
It is an orderly and well-mannered community.
He argued that succession is unique from other kinds of change with regard to mechanisms (modification of the physical environment by the community), trajectory (orderly, directional and predictable), and endpoint (a stable climax ecosystem in which "maximum biomass and symbiotic function between organisms are maintained per unit energy flow").
Even as the racial makeup shifted, though, Hollis kept hold of its essence as an orderly and largely working-class community — one where people ride a bus to the subway to get to work, and where houses and lots are small, and most lawns neatly trimmed.
Continued responsible and orderly planning and development in our communities will help safeguard our town well into the 21st century and beyond.
The case America has been trying to make, ever since Russia seized Crimea in February, is that the Ukrainian crisis is a test of whether this global community of rule-bound, orderly democratic states is willing to defend its edges.
