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...While many of us would rightly reject this caricature, we would not waste too much time doing so. Dwelling too long on the elaborate tapestry of social rules and symbols that would separate a country bumpkin from a blue blood at Harvard would betray an unhealthy obsession with status—as if one’s admissions letter was not enough to allay feelings of social insecurity...
Compared with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Jessica and Ashlee Simpson, Clarkson is almost always portrayed as a wholesome, unsophisticated girl with an outsize natural talent--a bumpkin with a gift. She really was a cocktail waitress at a comedy club in her hometown of Burleson, Texas, before an Idol audition started her on the road to fame, but it's rarely noted that Clarkson already lived in Hollywood (she was only in Burleson because her apartment burned down), or that, as a demo singer for Gerry Goffin, the ex-husband of Carole King and co-writer...
...remember Jackson as ''a nice guy,'' a member of the President's Oxford coterie says Jackson was ''not even in the third circle of Clinton's friends.'' While Jackson insists, ''I have no personal vendetta against Bill Clinton,'' one of his friends says Clinton saw Jackson as a bumpkin and treated him badly. Whether the slights were real or imagined, Jackson, he says, never forgot. When the two men returned home, Clinton began his rise to the top of Arkansas politics, while a flatter trajectory took Jackson into private law practice. He developed a flair for grandstanding...
...uncouth country bumpkin with decidedly dubious scholarly credentials," as Historian Richard Fox characterizes him, was the young Reinhold Niebuhr. Over the next four decades he was to become the nation's best-known theologian and political preacher, his Teutonic scowl etched on the face of 20th century American Protestantism...
...biggest Chinese tin magnate in the valley, is a willowy beauty whom Johnny woos and weds through guile and determination. Barely a year later Snow dies giving birth to Jasper, but not before producing a diary that forms the second narrative. It depicts Johnny as a clueless bumpkin whom she can't wait to ditch, probably for a suave, handsome Japanese professor named Kunichika who has befriended her parents...