Word: preps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California, native says when he stepped out of the taxi and met his roommates, he was more than an a little apprehensive. "I didn't know what I was getting myself into," he says of his two roommates, one a child of a wealthy alumnus and the other a prep school graduate...
Harvard may follow a relatively democratic admissions policy, but students found that democracy fails to extend far beyond their acceptance letter. Once here, students are confronted with a web of prep school ties and exclusive social clubs...
...Dukakis chose a native Texan, say Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, as his running mate, Texas would almost certainly vote Democrat. Bentsen, born and bred in Texas, would portray Bush as the true prep-school Northerner he really is. With another choice, Texans would quickly turn from the part-time Texan with three homes around the United States. Besides, Bush just put down the state's hero...
...Scottish mother and a Jewish father who imported hams and cheeses from Europe. The Salingers were well off, and Sonny, as Jerome David was sometimes called, had New York City as his playground. There were the underachieving school years at Valley Forge Military Academy (the Pencey Prep of Catcher), the brief attendance at New York University and Ursinus College, and enrollment in Burnett's short-story course at Columbia, where Hamilton assembles a sketch of an "on-the-make young college drop-out plotting his first literary career moves...
...Index is also elitist, as Brown basketball Coach Mike Cingiser says. It favors those students who are able to buy a spot in an SAT class or go to private or prep schools geared toward preparing students for college entrance tests...