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Cocaine is no longer just a curious upper-class kink. During the past two years or so, the number of Americans who have used the drug climbed from 15 million to 20 million and is rising still: every day some 5,000 neophytes sniff a line of coke for the first time. They cannot be written off as crazy kids: Government studies find that those in their late 20s and 30s constitute the fastest-growing proportion of users and, as of 1982, a majority of people who had tried cocaine were over 26. Nor does it seem that cocaine...
...There's still a sense of family and real community," says Andrew Lytle, novelist and English professor emeritus. Almost all 1,000 students are from middle-or upper-class families. About 80% of them are from the South; of those, 25% are from Tennessee. Nearly a third of the 250-member class of 1982 had brothers, fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers and a few sisters who preceded them to Sewanee (women were not admitted until 1969). Says Dean W. Brown Patterson: "The remarkable thing is that the students are opposed to changes. They are the most conservative element we have...
Lowry continues with a distinctly unsettling truth: "What [Diana] clearly didn't understand when she took that fateful step, with all the boldness of an upper-class Alice, through the royal looking glass, was that she could never get back into that nice cozy private nursery again . . . As James Whitaker [the Mirror's royal-watcher], her self-confessed slave and hack-in-chief, might say with a nudge, 'You didn't know you were marrying...
...beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight to pass around a joint. The flagrant use of cocaine is a festering scandal in middle-and upper-class life. And then there are (hello, Everybody!) the jaywalkers...
...North African countries--has increased dramatically in recent months. Late in December, for example, a policeman fatally shot a Sephardic youth in a Tel Aviv slum. The incident sparked threats by Sephardim directed toward Ashkenazim, including slogans like "Ashkenazim to Auschwitz, Treblinka and Dachau" painted on walls in upper-class Ashkenazim neighborhoods...