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| | Philadelphia Magazine: Restaurants, Shopping, Events, Best of Philly |
 | | A few years ago, journalist david brooks wrote a celebrated article for the Atlantic Monthly, "One Nation, Slightly Divisible," in which he examined the country’s cultural split in the aftermath of the 2000 election, contrasting the red states that went for Bush and the blue ones for Gore. |
 | | Brooks, an agile and engaging writer, was doing what he does best, bringing sweeping social movements to life by zeroing in on what Tom Wolfe called "status detail," those telling symbols—the Weber Grill, the open-toed sandals with advanced polymer soles—that immediately fix a person in place, time and class. |
 | | Brooks wrote that his hometown, Wayne, was emblematic of the "Upscale Suburban Hippiedom" that was the natural habitat of these "bourgeois bohemians." Like "yuppie" and "metrosexual," Brooks’s "bobo" entered the language as a successful coinage of pop sociology. |
| www.phillymag.com /articles/booboos_in_paradise (2795 words) |
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