Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes Wasps are treated like a species under examination before it becomes extinct. At the convocation of intellectuals in Princeton last month, Edward Shils, professor of social thought at the University of Chicago, announced: "The Wasp has abdicated, and his place has been taken by ants and fleas. The Wasp is less rough and far more permissive. He lacks self-confidence and feels lost." Other observers feel that the growing dissension in American life is a clear sign that the Wasp has lost his sting, that his culture no longer binds. The new radicals and protesters are not in rebellion...
...behavior, than a rigid ethnic type. Some non-Wasps display all the characteristics normally associated with the most purebred Wasps. Consciously or not, they are Waspirants. Many people were surprised to learn that Edmund Muskie, who talked and looked like a Down East Yankee, was actually of Polish descent. Edward Brooke, who was successfully promoted for the U.S. Senate by civic-spirited Wasps, has all the attributes of a well-bred Wasp, as does Whitney Young Jr. One doesn't have to be white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant to be a Wasp in spirit. The Wasp aura is created...
...Edward Wilcox, secretary of the CEP, denies that the ROTC memorandum had any influence on the drafting of the CEP resolution on ROTC, and claims not to have read it. We do not question his veracity; the fact that there is fundamental agreement between the CEP resolution and the recommendations of the Army ROTC Instructor Group by no means implies collusion. On the contrary, it seems rather irresponsible of the CEP to have ignored the wealth of factual material in that elaborate memo, and in fact highly insulting to the ROTC instructors who must have spent months compiling the documents...
...deeply concerned about this: Mickey Mouse speaking, and walking on his hind legs. I am concerned because I have now seen Walt Disney make Edward Bear speak. Winnie the Pooh does not have a mouth. Once, I remember, Ernest Shepard drew a tongue, very tiny, searching for honey. But Winnie the Pooh does not have a mouth. If only he had spared us that--the scratchy whiny, loud voice...
...both Smith and the retiring dean of Radcliffe Admissions, Mrs. Edward S. Stimpson, stressed that the appointment does not indicate a move toward connecting Harvard and Radcliffe's admissions offices...