Word: scions
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...reached the point in mental development where the world becomes not a place of magic and miracles, but a rule governed game, like chess or checkers. This slow transformation of the way that children perceive the world comes from many environmental factors. In my case Scooby Doo, with its scion of rationality in Velma, demonstrated time and time again that no matter how scary the monster, no matter how improbable the events, there was always a "logical explanation," while Shaggy and Scooby's (Zoinks!) belief in the supernatural was always exposed as folly. Other myths of childhood had evaporated before...
...serious-faced, saddened-looking young Al in fatigues in Nam, and hear that "when he comes home from Vietnam, the last thing he thinks he'll ever do is enter politics" - again, a line we heard more than once at the convention. (Al Gore is not a political scion who spent most of his life in Washington...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush--scion of old Wasps, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" over lethal injections--as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...
TIME: Your father seemed torn between being a scion of this New England gentry and being the Texan that he cast himself...
...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush - scion of old WASPs, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" now and then over lethal injections - as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...