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Local history is almost entirely a history of the town’s prominent families, which are those that have been here since British rule or were part of high society in later periods. The local history since 1775 focuses largely on mansions and the affluent people who owned them. Because town records, official speeches and other writings are often all that remains of the town’s past, people with enough educational privilege to produce such documents are greatly overrepresented in historical accounts...
...cuts at the heart of the very fabric of the church. That is a fiduciary relationship. When I was ordained a priest in 1973, I was 25 years old. I was assigned to a very affluent and very significant parish in a northwest suburb of Chicago. They didn't know me. I was dealing with people of significant competence--lawyers, judges, doctors. But the one thing that I had was that I was a priest, and therefore I had credibility. They trusted me with some of the great secrets of their lives. They trusted me with their kids. They trusted...
...grew up in the affluent town of Scarsdale, NY, which would later appear as the setting for one of her novels...
...took my 70-year-old mother on holiday to Syria, she quickly saw that its people were much friendlier than the country's dictatorship suggested, that the roads were clean and that (for a visitor in any case) life was in most respects as safe as in the affluent California town where she lives. Insofar as such places are difficult, traveling abroad allows us to appreciate better all the opportunities and freedoms of home that we otherwise take for granted...
...Galbraith wrote The Affluent Society, a book which has been praised for its insight into driving forces behind the modern U.S. economy...