Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's club system began as a multi-tiered system with entry level clubs that admitted prep school students, waiting clubs, and finally, the "final clubs"--only a few of which still exist. The attrition of the club system loosely parallels the progress of Harvard towards greater diversity in admissions and less reliance on a few prep school for students...
...Tocqueville myself, but I'm not sure that a defense of the moneyed elite was what Alexis had in mind when he wrote his tome. The final clubs are wealthy, prejudicial associations with a long sexist and racist heritage. They are bastions of old-boy networking and prep-school traditionalism, with wealthy alumni now working at Merrill Lynch and the State Department who fund the clubs and their beautiful limited-access buildings. As Law Professor Alan Dershowitz says, "the final clubs are where Harvard students learn to discriminate...
Super Tuesday's claim to Southern supremacy rested on the assumption that there would be a Southern candidate to lead the charge. But Sarr Nunn balked at the opportunity, and so did former Virginia Governor Charles Robb. That left Albert Gore '69, Harvard overseer, prep-school graduate to carry the mantle. But the Eastern-educated senator has had his troubles convincing voters that he's a good ole' boy who was brought up on a pig farm in Tennessee...
DUKAKIS has proved himself a "man of the people." He rides to the office on the T and he buys his suits from Filene's basement. Dukakis, in fact, has better proven himself to be "one of us" in the South than has Gore, whose Washington upbringing, prep school/Harvard ties and liberal voting record are taken as evidence that he has betrayed the South...
...Total Immersion" is about a Jewish prep school teacher and the culture conflict she encounters when she and her husband move to Hawaii. The story is told mostly through the often humorous dialogue of its many characters...