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Once such words would have been identified, and uncharitably patronized, as the essence of Southern redneck religion. But they were uttered last week at a thoroughly Episcopal church in Darien, Conn.,.an almost stereotypically proper and affluent Northeastern suburb. The speaker, Lee Buck, 54, is a senior vice president of the New York Life Insurance Co. "Before, I wanted to be successful in the world," says Buck. "Now I want to exalt the Lord. I want to stay a businessman, but I want people to know that God changes lives. You don't drop out of the world because...
...million a year in and around such major Hispanic centers as Miami, New York City and Los Angeles. But the problem of shoplifting is particularly severe at Christmas time, when saturation advertising whets the appetites of consumers, including larcenous ones, and makes the poor feel particularly deprived in an affluent society...
David A. Wylie, a former city councilor who lost his first bid for reelection in 1975, will return to the Cambridge City Council in January following a show of support by his primarily affluent and well-educated following in the November election...
...audience Paper Lion hit; readers who get their sports from the New York Times if not the New Yorker, who care about Plimpton's reactions to Hunter Thompson and Malcolm X as well as to Muhammad Ali--readers who, in fact, may more closely resemble the real Plimpton, affluent and Harvard educated, than they do his self-deprecating Mr. Average Joe persona...
Particularly in the cities, whites seem edgy and ill-tempered. To a group of neighbors who were gossiping about the rise in thefts and the burglarizing of homes, a white housewife in an affluent suburb of Johannesburg complained: "They [the blacks] are gathering all the time in small groups around the neighborhood. A few years ago, the police would have stopped them or picked them up. Now they're just everywhere. I never even walk any more." Many feel plagued by uncertainty. "People just don't make plans," says Nadine Gordimer. "They can't make up their minds, whether...