Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while prep school ties and blood lines may lead to membership for some club members, few of the clubs are truly elitist any more. Exclusivity is not the same thing as elitism unless there is some accepted standard of superiority that constitutes membership. When a group of hockey players lock themselves in a room drinking themselves into a coma becomes your idea of haute couture, then you've truly spent too much time watching "Ricki Lake...
...freshman recruits are Ed Mosley, who will wrestle at 158 pounds, and Dan Devivo, who will wrestle at 167. Mosley was the junior national champion last year and Devivo was the national prep champion the last two years...
...result, prep-school teams such as squash and crew tend to draw players who combine athletics and academics...
...writing to report an incident of outstanding idealism which I feel should not be left unrecorded. Several weekends past, a niece of mine (name not the same), called upon a friend at a final club. They attended prep school together. She was greeted rather haughtily at the door by a member, until she mentioned her friend's name. He appeared, was delighted to see her, and wanted to invite her in for an ongoing event...
...prewar Washington in the seigneurial home of his grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind Senator from Oklahoma (Vice President Al Gore is his cousin). Vidal's mother was a histrionic alcoholic, so early on he retreated into the world of books and language. He attended the exclusive St. Albans prep school and served as first mate on a supply ship during World War II, after which, at age 20, he published his first novel, Williwaw...