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...acronym, popularized in the early 1960s by sociologist E. Digby Baltzell, explains who Wasps are and -- more important -- were. White and Protestant are self-explanatory. Anglo-Saxon, a clumsy term, means English, plus English speakers from Northern Ireland and the Scottish lowlands. Wasps formed the vast majority of the early American population: 200 years ago, nearly all Americans were Protestant, and almost two-thirds were of "Anglo- Saxon" stock. First to come, first to serve: Wasps gave early America its first laws, religions and rhetoric, as well as a characteristic mental and personal style...
...British and Australian teams have the upperhand this time because competitors will have todebate "Scottish style" rather than "NorthAmerican style...
...debaters say they're training with this inmind. The Scottish style is more "free-wheelingand rhetorical," according to Galle. "It dependsless on facts and more on speaking itself...
...1850s, Ada (Hunter), a mute Scottish woman, comes to the voluptuously desolate New Zealand bush in an arranged marriage with Stewart (Neill), a landowner. Stewart cannot seduce a woman who can barely tolerate him and whose eyes burn with a fierce, almost feral obstinacy. What grievance has she against mankind, against men? And how can this crushing burden be eased...
...Vague Generality, take the typical example of "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent with the sprit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies with by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This Generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact...