Word: anglo
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...centered around a punny title, the plot is, to no one's surprise, quite uncentered. Andrew Dudley '00 and Nick Grandly '00 try valiantly to take The Jewel of Denial (do you get it? do you get it?) and spin it into a travelogue of lust, deprivation, and US-Anglo reconciliation; indeed, their ambitions are so lofty that a summary only succeeds in stripping their premise of its undeniable complexity. But we try, nevertheless. A southern belle finds her glittery "jewel of denial" swiped by Jacquelyn Hyde, her schizophrenic, Mary Reilly-cum-dominatrix maid. But no sticky-fingered maid ever...
...Savile Row-trained Anglo-Ghanaian has had a storied career in Britain--although some of the stories were about his money woes. He has just shown his lean, smartly cut suits in New York City for the first time. Boateng's signature--vibrant linings that play off the more subdued hues of his suits, yet are hidden to all but the wearer--makes him a sharp alternative for men who like to dress but can't embrace the fur, diamonds and leather prison jumpsuits shown by Puffy Combs' label, Sean John...
...Henry Stimson, who served as both Secretary of State and Secretary of War, they were publicity-averse men who were more powerful than famous. A sociologist who was very much a born-in member of this class, E. Digby Baltzell, bestowed two resonant names on its members: white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (Wasps) and the Protestant establishment. In historic terms, they were the gentlemanly replacements, in the American pilot's cabin, for the robber barons who emerged during the capitalist boom after the Civil...
DIED. PATRICK O'BRIAN, 85, Anglo-Irish author of high-adventure novels of the British navy in the Napoleonic Wars; in Dublin (see Eulogies...