Word: preps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...School Ties, Matt Damon '92-'93 plays Charlie Dillon, a rich young bigot at a New England prep school. In real life, though, Matt Damon is more like your next-door neighbor. In fact, he just might be: Damon is a senior at Harvard...
...role? Damon remarked that his Harvard experiences have prepared him for it. Matt said he "know[s] people like [Dillon] who have wealth and power and are fifth generation" here at Harvard, though they are not bigots. He just "tapped into [these] friends" who had felt the pressures of prep school and the sting of bigotry...
...English Prep School records in 100-yard backstroke
...Quayle has no malign racial-political intent, he might point out, when discussing the miseries of families, that, for example, Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to let the racist implication stand unchallenged, unexamined, loitering on the threshold, is the ugliest aspect of all this...
...Unlike most college campuses, there's a realdearth of drugs and availability. There's somecocaine, but in my experience that seems to occurmore in the prep school crowd," says the senior...