Word: suburbanization
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...daily schedule. The best-known and most solicited religion scholar working the lecture circuit, he daily receives half a dozen invitations to talk, and schedules one out-of-town appearance a week. He preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom on subjects ranging from Pat Robertson's presidential campaign to baby boomers. Marty writes a column for the Christian Century, the liberal Protestant...
Organizer Christopher D. Davidson '90 said he hoped the protest would show that Harvard students are interested in the outside world. "People say the youth of today don't care what's going on and just want a lovely suburban life. That's not true," Davidson said...
What Barber has here is a typical church choir, 18 or so voices, some by their own description small, some serviceable, with a few gorgeous ones folded in; four of them belong to paid section leaders, and the rest are volunteers. Most are under 40; they are suburban and modestly affluent. Many of them have come here from other denominations; they like the loftiness of Episcopal ritual -- what one of them terms "smells and bells...
...When Suburban Parisians Jean-Francois and Catherine Mayaux ordered a Minitel plugged into their telephone line 18 months ago, they planned to use the toaster-size computer console as an electronic telephone directory. But they soon found the Minitel terminal equally convenient for paying bills, purchasing airline tickets and making theater reservations. Lately they have started shopping a la modem, issuing on-line orders for everything from foie gras to fine wines. "Each wine has a numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel...
...leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside the main Renault factory in suburban Paris...