Word: wasp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only were the press overwhelming in number but they were not very subtle. One plump middle-aged woman with a "Re-elect the President" button complimented McGovern on his lovely daughter, telling him. "I can't vote for you. I'm voting for the President because I'm a WASP." One member of the press chortled. "Hey, did you hear that? She couldn't vote for McGovern because she was a WASP," he whispered loudly, evoking a soft but very noticeable laugh from his fellow reporters...
...Here is one WASP who sat up too late, his imagination captured by your story on Flip Wilson...
...straining to justify his theory of WASP domination, Schrag goes so far as to classify John F. Kennedy as a "perhaps" WASP. But even more regrettable than such thesis twisting is the author's failure to recognize that the case against the WASP has already been made-by WASPS. From Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James through Sinclair Lewis and J.P. Marquand, the WASP novelist has chosen as a favorite theme the moral decay within his breed...
Schrag is correct, if obvious, in decrying "conformity." He may even be partially correct in blaming conformity on the WASP. But in calling for "diversity and dissent," he fails to supply enough of these qualities to his own polemic. And what would he propose for a WASP-free America? After half seriously nominating Bella Abzug, Muhammad Ali, and Johnny Cash for President, he suggests legalizing marijuana, abortion and homosexuality, plus "decentralizing" schools and police forces...
Poor rugged-individualist Schrag! A nasty fate is in store. Before his manifesto has time to dry, all those despised WASP liberals will be lining up to sign their plastic John Hancocks...