Word: prepschoolers
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...power, as the truism goes, has its limits. In the concentric worlds that comprise modern New York, a character like Sherman McCoy is impotent should he venture beyond the insularity of chauffeur-driven cars and prepschool networks. Away from Wall Street, McCoy's life becomes the grist for other New York types, each one consumed by a drive for power. The gallery that Wolfe presents is compelling and yet predictable--his types are compiled from the people profiled in New York Magazine, Manhattan, Inc. and page six of the New York Post...
EVER SINCE rich, white Jennifer Dawn Levin was raped and murdered in New York's Central Park by a prepschool "friend," the city's tabloids have kept her story on the front page...
When Charles turned eight, the Queen decided totest out her theories of royal education and senthim to Hill House, a short drive from BuckinghamPalace. After two years at that school, QueenElizabeth decided to send her son to Cheam, a prepschool in Headley, a small village near Hampshire.Although Charles' schoolmates treated him like oneof them, even addressing him by his first name, itwas obvious that Charles was not one of them...
...Sympathy (by Robert Anderson) is effective theater, which expresses both its lure and its limitations. Over a peculiarly topical theme of horror-a prepschool boy falsely accused of homosexuality-Playwright Anderson has draped one of the most steadfastly serviceable of methods. Everything in Tea and Sympathy is very much the stuff, and even the sobstuff, of good matinee drama; and Elia Kazan has staged the play with a lively sense of his opportunities...
Jesse Cleveland, Assistant Manager, is in charge of the Freshman team, which boasts the presence of several prepschool stars among its 35 candidates. The Freshman schedule...