Word: prepped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...author rarely pushes beyond the most obvious implications of his overflowing subject matter. Still, this is a book of many pleasures, not the least of which is the credibly fraught bond between its two protagonists: Patrick Keane, a scholarship student at a New England prep school, and his roommate, the Afrophilic son of a rich and corrupt white Southern family, the Savages (hence the unfortunate title...
...Delaware. That was just the kind of reach-out-and-touch gesture Brown would have made. It was a skill he learned to develop early on. A son of New York City's black aristocracy, his first and perhaps most important lessons were imparted not by the wealthy prep schools he would attend as a teenager but by the human parade passing through his home, Harlem's Hotel Theresa, which his father managed. In its day, the Theresa served as a Mecca for famous black entertainers, sports heroes and, of course, politicians. Brown was on hair-mussing terms with...
...anecdotal exceptions for the enriching effects of affirmative action. But overwhelmingly, the backgrounds that these students come from, the advantages and opportunities that they have had, are similar to those of other students who attend Harvard. There is a certain homogeneity of experience among many students here--Princeton Review prep classes, professional parents and academic summer camps. To relax standards for minority students who have had these opportunities does not truly broaden diversity...
...patented pitch of whiny sarcasm. (Asked about working in the shadow of original Forum star Zero Mostel, he replies with a tart "Who?") Lane grew up in a working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring George C. Scott) before finding his artistic voice in several plays by McNally. His long association and friendship with...
Next comes some message therapy. "The problem with Dole is that he wanders all over the damn ballpark," says a Republican Senator who travels with him. Dole is historically bad about staying on message, and reluctant to let anyone help. He still does no debate prep; he doesn't inhale smooth answers to hard questions so that they will pour out naturally when the moment comes. "We have 26 positions on abortion," complains a close Dole friend. "Every time I hear our answer, it's a new answer...