Word: bucked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William O. Taylor '54, publisher and president of the Boston Globe and one of the nine lay members of the commission, said yesterday, "The two areas which I think that we will look at closest are first getting a better bang for the buck and second getting better support for high education...
Rogers avoids Madison Avenue's incestuous inner circles like the plague because "most people turn out anything to make a buck." He has dared to fire big accounts like glamorous Gucci (because the Italian company wanted its luggage photographed in a certain style). He despises hard-sell advertising of the Charmin TV variety, and has no intention of growing just for growth's sake ("Anybody who says you have to branch into other fields is a dope"). All this he has accomplished with a lean, highly paid staff of just ten people. In short, Rogers is proving that the "boutique...
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...
...only in Darien but all across the country, and indeed the world, that old-time religion is being recycled with ever increasing zeal. Countless people like Lee Buck were brought up to think that revivalism is the province of faith healers, holy rollers and counterfeit preachers?a thing of bad taste, or bad theology, or both ?and just possibly a sign of simple-mindedness or galloping hypocrisy as well. Yet there they are today, down on their knees at prayer meetings. They are pursuing the word day by day instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only...
Only last month the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke his hand by clobbering Milwaukee Buck Rookie Center Kent Benson, who suffered a mild concussion. After that incident, O'Brien formed a committee to examine proposals for reducing the violence in pro basketball. Among the possible rule changes: penalties, similar to those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A...