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...larger point is that Jack takes his white, Anglo-Saxon status for / granted, while his late friend was self-conscious about his position. "Ben liked to joke that he was his own invention and therefore never could be certain how he really felt about anything or anybody," Jack confides, along with his supply of juicy details about Ben's business and sleeping arrangements...
...that the atmosphere is sexist, the women add; it just reminds them of their fathers. In addition, they feel oppressed by the Anglo-Saxon tone of the clubs, calling them "WASP theme parks." One female ex-member of the Tavern Club summed up the discontent by saying that although some men are "trying to change," most are unwilling to "change the things that most are most those white Anglo-Saxon males grew up with...
...Angeles. Together with a five-hour television series that will be aired on the Discovery Channel in August, the book is Fuentes' answer to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish- speaking world. Aiming to show that the Latin legacy is as rich as anything in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, Fuentes has condensed five centuries of Hispanic experience into a multimedia saga that ranges, in his words, "from the caves of Altamira to the graffiti of East Los Angeles...
...govern quietly, and she did not go quietly. Sharp-tongued Prime Minister Edith Cresson, 58, drew fire while in office for having called the Japanese "ants" and saying that one-quarter of Anglo-Saxon men are homosexuals. In her letter of resignation, she complained that she had not been allowed to "fully complete" her mission...
...EEOC and those feminists who back this subjective standard of harassment would like us to abandon a thousand years of Anglo-Saxon legal precedent. Such an abandonment will not end harassment. It will merely destroy the rule...